Macharetí River
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Río Macharetí Quebrada (de) Macharetí |
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| location | Bolivia | |
| River system | Rio Paraná | |
| Source height | 1085 m | |
| muzzle | Infiltration coordinates: 20 ° 55 ′ 42 ″ S , 63 ° 14 ′ 23 ″ W 20 ° 55 ′ 42 ″ S , 63 ° 14 ′ 23 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | 553 m | |
| Height difference | 532 m | |
| Bottom slope | 6.7 ‰ | |
| length | 80 km | |
| Communities | Macharetí | |
The Río Macharetí (also: Quebrada (de) Macharetí ) is a river in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
The Río Macharetí has a total length of 80 kilometers, it rises in the Serraná de Aguarague , a mountain range of the eastern Voranden in Bolivia, and runs in its water-rich lower reaches in the northwestern part of the Bolivian Chaco . It rises in the Chuquisaca department on the border between the two districts of Municipio Macharetí and Municipio Huacaya as the Río Yapi , about twenty kilometers southwest of the Boyuibe traffic junction .
From there, the source stream of the Macharetí flows first in a southerly direction, then in a south-westerly direction and unites in its course with the Río Abao and the Río Tati. After about 50 kilometers the river emerges from the foothills, the river bed reaches a width of up to 400 meters near Macharetí . The river now flows east here and is crossed at kilometer 56 by the Ruta 9 highway and a few kilometers downstream by the Santa Cruz - Yacuiba railway line .
The river then bends in a south-easterly direction and dries up after another 20 to 25 kilometers in the Chaco lowlands. The Río Pilcomayo , which belongs to the river basin of the Rio Paraná , flows further south below the infiltration area .