Rio Paute

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Rio Paute
Confluence of the Río Negro (left) into the Río Paute (right)

Confluence of the Río Negro (left) into the Río Paute (right)

Data
location Azuay , Cañar and Morona Santiago provinces in Ecuador
River system Amazon
Drain over Río Namangoza  → Río Santiago  → Río Marañón  → Amazon  → Atlantic Ocean
Confluence of Río Cuenca and Río Santa Bárbara
2 ° 51 ′ 36 ″  S , 78 ° 46 ′ 22 ″  W
Source height approx.  2200  m
Association with Río Upano to Río Namangoza Coordinates: 2 ° 45 ′ 27 ″  S , 78 ° 16 ′ 29 ″  W 2 ° 45 ′ 27 ″  S , 78 ° 16 ′ 29 ″  W.
Mouth height approx.  420  m
Height difference approx. 1780 m
Bottom slope approx. 16 ‰
length approx. 110 km
Catchment area 6439 km²
Discharge at the level above Río Dudas
A Eo : 4006 km² 		MQ
Mq
 		71 m³ / s
17.7 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Río Dudas , Río Mazar , Río Palmira
Right tributaries Río Collay, Río Negro
Reservoirs flowed through Paute Mazar Dam , Amaluza Dam
Small towns Paute , Santiago de Méndez

The Río Paute is the 110 km long right source river of the Río Namangoza in the provinces of Azuay , Cañar and Morona Santiago in the east of Ecuador .

River course

The Río Paute arises at an altitude of about 2200  m at the confluence of the Río Cuenca (left) and Río Santa Bárbara (right) 3 km north of the city of Gualaceo . It initially flows 50 km in a predominantly north-northeast direction. After about 10 kilometers he passes the small town of Paute on the left bank of the river . At river kilometer 65 the Río Paute is dammed by the Paute-Mazar dam over a length of 20 km. At river kilometer 51 there is the Amaluza dam , which dams the river for about 4.5 km. The Río Paute then cuts in a predominantly east-southeast direction through the ridge of the Cordillera Real . The E40 trunk road follows the course of the river. 9 km above the junction with the Río Upano to the Río Namangoza is the small town of Santiago de Méndez on the left bank of the river. 4 kilometers downstream, the Río Negro meets the Río Paute from the right. Below the junction, the E45 ( Zamora - Macas ) road crosses the river.

Hydrology

The Río Paute drains an area of ​​6439 km². The mean discharge at the gauge above the confluence of the Río Dudas is 71 m³ / s.

Use of hydropower

On the course of the Río Paute there are two dams, Paute Mazar and Amaluza , as well as three hydropower plants, Paute Mazar (194 MW), Paute Molino (1110 MW) and Paute Sopladora (487 MW).

Web links

Commons : Río Paute  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A. Laraque, J. Ronchail and a .: Heterogeneous Distribution of Rainfall and Discharge Regimes in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin. In: Journal of Hydrometeorology. 8, 2007, p. 1364, doi : 10.1175 / 2007JHM784.1 .