Río Chico (Chuquisaca)

Rio Chico
Course of the Río Chico
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
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.
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)