Arroyo de las Flores (Arroyo de las Víboras)

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Arroyo de las Flores / Arroyuelo de las Flores
Data
location South America , Uruguay
River system Río de la Plata
Drain over Arroyo de las Víboras  → Uruguay  → La Plata  → Atlantic
muzzle Arroyo de las Víboras Coordinates: 33 ° 54 ′ 1 ″  S , 58 ° 13 ′ 17 ″  W 33 ° 54 ′ 1 ″  S , 58 ° 13 ′ 17 ″  W.

The Arroyo de las Flores , also known as Arroyuelo de las Flores , is a small river in the southwest of Uruguay .

It rises a few kilometers east-northeast of Agraciada or south-southwest of Cañada Nieto in the area of ​​the Department of Colonia near the border with the neighboring department of Soriano . A few hundred meters behind its source, it crosses under Ruta 12 and flows in a south or south-south-west direction. It flows as a right-hand tributary into the Arroyo de las Víboras .

Individual evidence

  1. Orestes Araújo : "Diccionario geográfico del Uruguay", Montevideo, 2nd edition 1912, p. 196
  2. Information on the website of the natural science faculty of the Universidad de la República .
  3. http://www.ine.gub.uy/mapas/departamental/a0h_colonia.pdf Map showing the course of the river on the website of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay