Mazaruni
| Mazaruni | ||
 Catchment area of the Essequibo |
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| location | Guyana | |
| River system | Essequibo | |
| Drain over | Essequibo → Atlantic Ocean | |
| muzzle | at Bartica in the Essequibo coordinates: 6 ° 25 ′ 13 ″ N , 58 ° 37 ′ 53 ″ W 6 ° 25 ′ 13 ″ N , 58 ° 37 ′ 53 ″ W
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| Left tributaries | Kamarang / Río Camarán , Puruni , Cuyuní | |
The Mazaruni is a river in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region of the South American state of Guyana , which flows into the Essequibo near the city of Bartica . Upstream, the Mazaruni has many dangerous, barely passable rapids over a stretch of over 100 km , which the Issano road was built to bypass . Guyana's first large power plant was built in the upper reaches of the Mazaruni.
Endemites of Mazaruni are named after the river cichlid species mazarunia , the Harnischwels Paulasquama callis , the knife fish Akawaio penak and Bodensalmler Skiotocharax Meizon .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hernán López-Fernández, Donald C. Taphorn; Elford A. Liverpool: Phylogenetic diagnosis and expanded description of the genus Mazarunia Kullander, 1990 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the upper Mazaruni river, Guyana, with description of two new species Neotropical Ichthyology, vol.10 no.3 Porto Alegre Sept. 2012 , doi: 10.1590 / S1679-62252012000300001 , ISSN 1679-6225
Web links
- Mazaruni River in the Encyclopædia Britannica