Río Bermejo
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| location | Bolivia , Argentina | |
| River system | Río de la Plata | |
| Drain over | Paraguay → Paraná → Río de la Plata → Atlantic | |
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Bolivian Cordillera 22 ° 0 ′ 14 ″ S , 64 ° 57 ′ 30 ″ W |
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| muzzle | as Río Teuco opposite Pilar in the Río Paraguay Coordinates: 26 ° 52 ′ 18 ″ S , 58 ° 22 ′ 55 ″ W, 26 ° 52 ′ 18 ″ S , 58 ° 22 ′ 55 ″ W
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| length | 1450 km | |
The Río Bermejo , also simply called Bermejo , is a river in southern South America .
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The source of the Bermejo lies in the Bolivian Cordilleras in Bolivia near the border with Argentina , through which it continues to flow into the Paraguay River at the Paraguayan border, just above its confluence with the Paraná . The river has a length of about 1450 km. The middle section, called "Teuco", is navigable every six months.
The catchment area of the Bermejo includes southern Bolivia and northwestern and northern Argentina.
The river was of strategic importance for Bolivia's foreign trade as early as the 19th century:
“The objects of European industry can be brought up to the border of Bolivia from Paraguay, but to the north of the Argentine Republic by means of the Bermejo River with greater ease and therefore at lower costs than their transport on the long way around Cap Horn to Valparaíso which is currently the market in Bolivia. "
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- ↑ Present and future of the Plata countries for German trade and colonization. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1852, p. 19.