Río Chico (Chuquisaca)
Rio Chico | ||
Course of the Río Chico |
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Data | ||
location | Bolivia | |
River system | Amazon | |
Drain over | Grande → Mamoré → Madeira → Amazon → Atlantic | |
Beginning as Río Chico | at the confluence of the Río Palca and Río Portillo at Pojpo 18 ° 47 ′ 41 ″ S , 65 ° 19 ′ 27 ″ W |
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Source height | 2415 m | |
muzzle | below Sausal in the Río Grande Coordinates: 18 ° 37 ′ 16 ″ S , 65 ° 11 ′ 33 ″ W 18 ° 37 ′ 16 ″ S , 65 ° 11 ′ 33 ″ W. |
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Mouth height | 1514 m | |
Height difference | 901 m | |
Bottom slope | 9.7 ‰ | |
length | 93 km | |
Left tributaries | Río Potrero, Río Challa, Río Ullucuro, Río Chirimayo, Río Luje | |
Right tributaries | Río Carapirita, Río Chaquimayu, Río Huañuma, Rio Pajcha | |
Communities | Pojpo , Kacha Kacha , Mojotoro , Chaco , Chuqui Chuqui , Surima , Bella Vista , Sausal |
The Río Chico ( Small River ) is a right tributary of the Río Grande in the South American Andean Mountains of Bolivia .
The Río Chico has a total length of 93 kilometers. It forms at an altitude of 2415 m in the village of Pojpo at the confluence of the Río Palca and Río Portillo in the municipality of Poroma in the province of Oropeza in the Chuquisaca department . The river leaves the Municipio Poroma after six kilometers and flows in the rest of the course through the Municipio Sucre . It flows for the first 43 kilometers in a largely south-easterly direction, then further north until it flows into the Río Grande at the town of Sausal at an altitude of 1514 m , a tributary to the Río Mamoré .
Web links
- Relief map 6537-IV of the Sapsi region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.49 MB)
- Relief map 6537-III of the Estancía Chaunaca region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.52 MB)
- Relief map 6537-I of the Chuqui Chuqui region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 3.31 MB)
- Relief map 6537-II of the Pajcha region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.34 MB)
- Relief map 6538-II of the Puente Arce region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.74 MB)
- Relief map of the Sucre region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.79 MB)