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Orinoco

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The Orinoco River is one of the longest rivers in South America at. [1]

72 relations: Adaheli, Alexander von Humboldt, Amazon River, Ambrosius Ehinger, Angostura Bridge, Anzoátegui, Apure River, Arauca River, Atabapo River, Atlantic Ocean, Blackwater river, Boto, Brackish water, Brazil, Cardinal tetra, Caroní River, Casanare River, Casiquiare canal, Catfish, Caura River (Venezuela), Characiformes, Christopher Columbus, Ciudad Bolívar, Ciudad Guayana, Clearwater river (river type), Colombia, Coro, Venezuela, Diego de Ordaz, Discharge (hydrology), Distributary, Drainage basin, Dredging, El Dorado, Endemism, Estuary, Foreland basin, Giant otter, Guaviare River, Guárico, Guiana Shield, Gulf of Paria, Inírida River, List of rivers by discharge, Llovizna Falls, Los Llanos (South America), Meta River, Monagas, Mythology, Oil sands, Oligocene, ..., Orinoco Belt, Orinoco crocodile, Orinoco Delta, Orinoquia Bridge, Parima Mountains, Pitch Lake, Puerto Ayacucho, Puerto Carreño, Pygocentrus cariba, Rio Negro (Amazon), River, River delta, San Fernando de Atabapo, Sandstone, South America, Sun, Thrust fault, Venezuela, Ventuari River, Vichada River, Walter Raleigh, Whitewater river (river type). Expand index (22 more) »

Adaheli

Adaheli was the personification of the sun in the mythology of the Orinoco region of South America.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Amazon River

The Amazon River (or; Spanish and Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest.

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Ambrosius Ehinger

Ambrosius Ehinger, also (Ambrosio Alfínger in Spanish) Dalfinger, Thalfinger, (ca. 1500 in Thalfingen near Ulm – 31 May 1533 near Chinácota Colombia) was a German conquistador and the first governor of the Welser concession, also known as “Little Venice” (Klein-Venedig), in New Granada, now Venezuela and Colombia.

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Angostura Bridge

Angostura Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.

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Anzoátegui

Anzoátegui State (Estado Anzoátegui) is one of the 23 component states of Venezuela, located in the northeastern region of the country.

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Apure River

The Apure River is a river of southwestern Venezuela, formed by the confluence of the Sarare and Uribante near Guasdualito, in Venezuela, at, and flowing across the llanos into the Orinoco.

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Arauca River

The Arauca River (Río Arauca) rises in the Andes Mountains of north-central Colombia and ends at the Orinoco in Venezuela.

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Atabapo River

Atabapo River is a river of Venezuela and Colombia.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Blackwater river

A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands.

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Boto

Boto is a Portuguese name given to several types of dolphins and river dolphins native to the Amazon and the Orinoco River tributaries.

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Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Cardinal tetra

The cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi) is a freshwater fish of the characin family (family Characidae) of order Characiformes.

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Caroní River

The Caroni River is the second most important river of Venezuela, the second in flow, and one of the longest, from the Tepui Kuquenan, where it originates with the same name Kuquenan, up to its confluence with the River Orinoco to which it belongs.

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Casanare River

Casenare River is a river in Colombia.

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Casiquiare canal

The Casiquiare river is a distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela, South America.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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Caura River (Venezuela)

The Caura, is a tributary of the Orinoco River, located in Bolívar State in Venezuela.

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Characiformes

Characiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising the characins and their allies.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.

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Ciudad Bolívar

Ciudad Bolívar (Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar State.

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Ciudad Guayana

Ciudad Guayana is a city in Bolívar State, Venezuela.

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Clearwater river (river type)

A clearwater river is classified based on its chemistry, sediments and water colour.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Coro, Venezuela

Coro is the capital of Falcón State and the oldest city in the west of Venezuela.

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Diego de Ordaz

Diego de Ordaz (also Diego de Ordás; 1480 in Castroverde de Campos, Zamora province, Spain – 1532 in Venezuela) was a Spanish explorer and soldier.

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Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate of water that is transported through a given cross-sectional area.

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Distributary

A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.

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El Dorado

El Dorado (Spanish for "the golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado ("The Golden Man") or El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca native people of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Foreland basin

A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.

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Giant otter

The giant otter or giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal.

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Guaviare River

The Guaviare is a tributary of the Orinoco in Colombia.

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Guárico

Guárico State (Estado Guárico) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.

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Guiana Shield

The Guiana Shield is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate.

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Gulf of Paria

The Gulf of Paria (Golfo de Paria) is a shallow (37m at its deepest) semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) and the east coast of Venezuela.

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Inírida River

The Inírida (Spanish: Río Inírida) is a river in the north-west of South America, in the territory of Colombia, the largest tributary of the Guaviare (the Orinoco River basin).

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List of rivers by discharge

This is a list of rivers by their average discharge, that is their water flow.

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Llovizna Falls

Llovizna falls is a waterfall on the Caroní River, close to its confluence with the Orinoco, are located in the Llovizna Park, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela.

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Los Llanos (South America)

Los Llanos ("The Plains") is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.

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Meta River

The Meta River is a major left tributary of the Orinoco River in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, South America.

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Monagas

Monagas State (Estado Monagas) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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Oil sands

Oil sands, also known as tar sands or crude bitumen, or more technically bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Orinoco Belt

The Orinoco Belt is a territory in the southern strip of the eastern Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela which overlies the world's largest deposits of petroleum.

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Orinoco crocodile

The Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered crocodile.

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Orinoco Delta

The Orinoco Delta is a vast river delta of the Orinoco River, located in eastern Venezuela.

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Orinoquia Bridge

The Second Orinoco crossing or Orinoquia Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Orinoco River near Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela.

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Parima Mountains

The Parima Mountains (span. Sierra Parima, port. Serra Parima) are a mountain range of the Guiana Shield in South America.

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Pitch Lake

The Pitch Lake is one of the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world, estimated to contain 10 million tons.

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Puerto Ayacucho

Puerto Ayacucho is the capital and largest city of Amazonas State in Venezuela.

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Puerto Carreño

Puerto Carreño is the departmental capital, and a municipality, of the department of Vichada in the llanos of Colombia.

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Pygocentrus cariba

Pygocentrus cariba or black spot piranha is a species of piranha native to the Orinoco River basin lowlands and the Llanos region in Venezuela and Colombia.

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Rio Negro (Amazon)

The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River") is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River, the largest blackwater river in the world (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.

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River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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San Fernando de Atabapo

San Fernando de Atabapo was the capital city of Venezuela's Amazonas state until the early 1900s.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Thrust fault

A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Ventuari River

The Ventuari River is the largest tributary of the Orinoco in southern Venezuela.

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Vichada River

The Vichada River (Río Vichada) is a blackwater river in the country of Colombia, South America.

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Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (or; circa 155429 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.

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Whitewater river (river type)

A whitewater river is classified based on its chemistry, sediments and water colour.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco

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