Arroyo San Francisco
| Arroyo San Francisco | ||
| location | South America , Uruguay | |
| River system | Río de la Plata | |
| Drain over | Río Santa Lucía → Río de la Plata → Atlantic | |
| source | southeast of Minas in the Sierra de Carapé | |
| muzzle | in the Río Santa Lucía coordinates: 34 ° 17 ′ 23 " S , 55 ° 19 ′ 3" W 34 ° 17 ′ 23 " S , 55 ° 19 ′ 3" W
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| Left tributaries | Arroyo Minas Viejas , Espinillo, Arroyo La Plata | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Reservoir of the Carlos Maggiolo water treatment plant | |
The Arroyo San Francisco is a river in Uruguay . It rises in the southern part of the Lavalleja department on the border with the neighboring Maldonado department . Its source lies southeast of Minas in the Sierra de Carapé and northeast of that of the Arroyo Pan de Azúcar . The Arroyo San Francisco belongs to the catchment area of the Río Santa Lucía .
The river runs in a predominantly northwestern direction. South of Minas, it is dammed into a reservoir at a 250-meter-long dam. The reservoir, which contains around one million cubic meters of water, belongs to the state water supply company OSE . The associated water treatment plant was inaugurated in 1934 and named after the engineer Carlos Maggiolo.
North of Minas, the Arroyo San Francisco meets the Arroyo Campanero Grande . The Arroyo San Francisco, which runs for around 30 kilometers, is described on the one hand as a tributary of the Rió Santa Lucía on the other hand as flowing into the Arroyo del Campanero.
Individual evidence
- ^ Represa de OSE Espacio de inclusión digital, intendencia de Lavalleja, archived from the original on January 1, 2012 ; Retrieved August 26, 2012 (Spanish).
- ↑ Map showing the course of the river (PDF; 2.4 MB) on the website of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay , accessed on September 3, 2012
- ↑ Orestes Araújo : "Diccionario geográfico del Uruguay", Montevideo, 2nd edition 1912, p. 418