The Ventuari River is the largest tributary of the Orinoco in southern Venezuela.[1] The Ventuari flows from south-central Venezuela in the Guiana Highlands southwest into the Orinoco River. It is 520 km (320 mi) long and its major tributary is the Manapiare River.
| Ventuari River | |
|---|---|
.jpg)  Mouth location in Venezuela | |
| Native name | Rio Ventuari (Spanish) |
| Location | |
| Country | Venezuela |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 3°59′40″N 67°02′07″W / 3.9944°N 67.0353°W |
| Length | 520 km (320 mi) |
| Basin size | 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 2,000 m3/s (71,000 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Orinoco |
The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion.[2] The Ventuari River is the largest clearwater tributary of the Orinoco.[1] As of 2006[update], 470 fish species were known from the river, including several endemics, and a few new species have been described from the river since then.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Montaña, C.G.; H. López-Fernández; D.C. Taphorn (2008). "A new species of Crenicichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the Rio Ventuari, Upper Rio Orinoco, Amazonas State, Venezuela". Zootaxa. 1856: 33–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1856.1.3. S2CID 18250036.
- ^ Sears, Robin, South America: Southern Venezuela, northern Brazil, western Guyana, and eastern Colombia (NT0124), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-04-01
- Hitchcock, Charles B. La región Orinoco Ventuari. Relato de la Expedición Phelps al Cerro Yaví. Caracas: Ministerio de Educación Nacional, Imprenta El Compás, 1984 (Translated from an older English Edition: The Orinoco - Ventuari Region. American Geographical Society, 1947).
- Koch-Grünberg, Theodor. Vom Roraima zum Orinoco. 1917. Reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00630-9.