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Orinoco in Mariusa National Park (Delta Amacuro) Orinoco at its confluence with the Caroní River (lower left) [21] Rapids of the Orinoco, near Puerto Ayacucho airport, Venezuela Orinoco in Amazonas State, Venezuela Orinoco in Amazonas State, Venezuela. At its mouth, the Orinoco River forms a wide delta that branches off into hundreds of rivers ...
The Orinoco Basin is the part of South America drained by the Orinoco river and its tributaries. The Orinoco watershed covers an area of about 990000 km 2 , making it the third largest in South America, covering most of Venezuela and eastern part of Colombia .
The delta is fan-shaped, formed by the Orinoco River as it splits into numerous distributaries, called caños, which meander through the delta on their way to the sea.The main distributary is called the Rio Grande, which empties south-southeast through the southern portion of the delta, and the second major distributary is Caño Manamo, which runs northward along the western edge of the delta.
The Casiquiare river or canal (Spanish pronunciation: [kasiˈkjaɾe]) is a natural distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.
León A, Rafael de. y Rodríguez Díaz, Alberto J. 1976: El Orinoco aprovechado y recorrido. Corporación Venezolana de Guayana y Ministerio de Obras Públicas. Caracas. 216p.
The Caroní River is the second most important river of Venezuela, the second in flow, and one of the longest, 952 kilometres (592 mi) from the Kukenan tepui through to its confluence with the Orinoco River. The name "Caroní" is applied starting from the confluence of the Kukenan with the Yuruaní River at 182 kilometres (113 mi) from the ...
Historically, places within Venezuela with especially poor soil have been avoided as settlement areas. [33] Only roughly 5% of the Venezuelan population is located south of the Orinoco river. [33] Due to this issue of oversaturated soils Venezuela has invested in drainage technology, namely in two large watersheds.
The Second Orinoco crossing or Orinoquia Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Orinoco River near Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela.It was inaugurated on November 13, 2006 and named Orinoquia Bridge.