Río Aguarico
| Río Aguarico | ||
 Pedestrian suspension bridge over the Aguarico in the province of Sucumbíos |
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| Data | ||
| location |
 Ecuador , Peru
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| River system | Amazon | |
| Drain over | Río Napo → Amazon → Atlantic | |
| Confluence of |
Río Chinguales and Río Cofanes 0 ° 13 ′ 52 ″ N , 77 ° 30 ′ 35 ″ W. |
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| Source height | approx. 590 m | |
| muzzle |
Río Napo Coordinates: 0 ° 57 ′ 54 ″ S , 75 ° 11 ′ 47 ″ W 0 ° 57 ′ 54 ″ S , 75 ° 11 ′ 47 ″ W. |
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| Mouth height | 176 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 414 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 0.94 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 440 km | |
| Catchment area | approx. 13,750 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Río Dureno , Río Cuyabeno , Río Lagartococha | |
| Right tributaries | Río Due , Río Eno , Río Shushufindi , Río Yanayacu | |
| Medium-sized cities | Nueva Loja | |
| Communities | El Dorado de Cascales | |
The Río Aguarico (or Aguarico for short , Spanish for "rich in water") is a river in Ecuador and Peru . Due to its high content of mineral suspended solids, which make the water appear dirty-clay-colored, the river is one of the tropical white water rivers .
River course
The Río Aguarico arises from the confluence of the Río Chinguales and Río Cofanes at the foot of the Cordillera Real . The Río Chinguales has its source in the far north of the country in the Andes near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border between Tulcán and Ipiales . From there, in the province of Carchi, it initially flows mainly southwards down the Andes, before reaching the Ecuadorian part of the Amazon basin in the province of Sucumbíos , where it joins the Río Cofanes, whose headwaters further south on the eastern slopes of the Andes on the border of the Imbabura and Sucumbíos provinces arise. In the province of Sucumbíos the Río Aguarico flows with a slight north-south orientation mainly to the east. Among other things, it passes El Dorado de Cascales (at river kilometer 385) and Nueva Loja (at river kilometer 340), the provincial capital of Sucumbíos.
In the last part of its course it first forms the southern border of the province of Sucumbíos to the province of Orellana , before it turns south after the confluence of the Río Lagartococha in the intact tropical rainforest of the Cuyabeno game reserve and forms the state border with Peru . On the same it flows west of the Peruvian city Cabo Pantoja into the Río Napo , whose waters in turn flow into the Amazon .
The Río Aguarico is approximately 440 kilometers long. Important tributaries and tributaries are the Río Dorado on the left (which flows into the Río Cofanes), the Río Dureno , the Río Cuyabeno (with its tributaries Río Aguas Negras and Río Balatayacu) and on the right the Río Due , the Río Eno , the Río Shushufindi and the Río Yanayacu (just before the mouth).
In the province of Orellana, a canton bears the name of Aguarico. Its main town, Nuevo Rocafuerte, is on the Napo. The canton is bounded to the north and east by the Aguarico. The Apostolic Vicariate Aguarico of the Roman Catholic Church for the area of the very sparsely populated Amazon lowlands (based in Puerto Francisco de Orellana ) is named after the river.
Many indigenous Amazonian communities live along the Aguarico and its tributaries, including Cofanes and Secoyas . The tropical forests through which the Aguarico flows are very species-rich , and dolphins live in the river itself . In numerous areas around the Aguarico there are oil deposits , the exploitation of which has resulted in multiple accidents in the past that polluted the river (see oil disaster in the northern Amazon lowlands of Ecuador ) . A crude oil pipeline, some of which belongs to the first national oil pipeline, Oleoducto Transecuatoriano , runs parallel to the course of the river over a length of around 85 kilometers in the Amazon basin .
Catchment area
The Río Aguarico drains an area of about 13,750 km². The catchment area extends in the west north of the Cayambe volcano over a length of 90 km along the Cordillera Real. In the north it borders on the catchment area of the Río Putumayo , in the southwest on that of the Río Coca , in the south on that of the central reaches of the Río Napo.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Judith Denkinger: '' Demographic studies on the Amazon dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) in the Cuyabeno reserve, in Ecuador. " Doctoral thesis at Bielefeld University, 2001, pdf version , accessed on February 17, 2019. p. 20.