Río Heath
| Río Heath | ||
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 Peru , Bolivia
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| River system | Amazon | |
| Drain over | Río Madre de Dios → Río Beni → Rio Madeira → Amazon → Atlantic Ocean | |
| Headwaters | Front chains on the edge of the Peruvian Eastern Cordillera 13 ° 47 ′ 10 ″ S , 68 ° 59 ′ 4 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 1500 m | |
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Río Madre de Dios Coordinates: 12 ° 30 ′ 9 ″ S , 68 ° 39 ′ 10 ″ W 12 ° 30 ′ 9 ″ S , 68 ° 39 ′ 10 ″ W. |
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| Mouth height | approx. 160 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 1340 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 4.5 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 300 km | |
| Catchment area | approx. 3400 km² | |
| Outflow A Eo : 3400 km²
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MQ Mq |
133 m³ / s 39.1 l / (s km²) |
| Left tributaries | Río Eillo, Río Wiener, Río Bravo, Río Sabaluyo | |
| Communities | Puerto Pardo, Sonene, Puerto Heath | |
The Río Heath is a 300 km long right tributary of the Río Madre de Dios in the southwest Amazon basin . It represents the border between Peru in the west and Bolivia in the east along its entire course .
course
The Río Heath rises at an altitude of about 1500 m in the inaccessible upstream chains on the edge of the Peruvian Eastern Cordillera , a good 90 km as the crow flies west of Ixiamas and about 200 km north of Lake Titicaca . After breaking through the last north-west-south-east trending mountain ridges, it reaches the lowlands in which it flows directly north. It flows into the Río Madre de Dios at a distance of about 150 km north of its headwaters at an altitude of 160 m near Puerto Pardo and Puerto Heath. On its way, the Río Heath separates the Bolivian department of La Paz from the Peruvian regions of Puno and Madre de Dios . Along its entire course it shows a strongly meandering behavior with numerous river bends and oxbow lakes. The approximately 3400 km² catchment area of the Río Heath lies almost entirely in the lowlands and consists of largely undeveloped tropical rainforest . It borders on that of the Río Tambopata to the west and that of the Río Madidi to the east . On the Peruvian side of the river is the Bahuaja Sonene National Park and the Reserva Nacional Tambopata , while the Madidi National Park is on the Bolivian side of the river . The mean discharge of the Río Heath is given as 133 m³ / s.
History of exploration
The Río Heath was named after the American Edwin Heath , who traveled and described the region in the 1880s. In 1910, the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his expedition group traveled the Río Heath on behalf of the Bolivian government to determine the border with Peru; he mapped its course and made contact with the local indigenous peoples. According to Fawcett, the length of the river is 226 km.
Individual evidence
literature
- Percy Harrison Fawcett (Ed.), Brian Fawcett (Ed.): Exploration Fawcett. Hutchinson, 1953.
- Rio Heath-Sonene Expedition , accessed March 20, 2020