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Apure: from Venezuela through the east into the Orinoco; Arauca: from Colombia to Venezuela east into the Orinoco; Atabapo: from the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela north into the Orinoco; Caroní: from the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela north into the Orinoco; Casiquiare canal: in SE Venezuela, a distributary from the Orinoco flowing west to the ...
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.
Its local Spanish name is Faja Petrolífera del Orinoco (Orinoco Petroleum Belt). The Orinoco Belt is located in Guárico and south of the Anzoátegui, Monagas, and Delta Amacuro states, and it follows the line of the river. It is approximately 600 kilometres (370 mi) from east to west, and 70 kilometres (43 mi) from north to south, with an ...
Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east–west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.
(The Orinoco Basin flows west–north–northeast into the Caribbean; the Amazon Basin flows east into the western Atlantic in the extreme northeast of Brazil.) Essentially the river divide is a west-flowing, upriver section of Venezuela's Orinoco River with an outflow to the south into the Amazon Basin.
Delta Amacuro State (Spanish: Estado Delta Amacuro, IPA: [esˈtaðo ˈðelta amaˈkuɾo]) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, and is the location of the Orinoco Delta.The Paria Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean are found to the north, Bolívar State is found to the south, the Atlantic Ocean and Guyana are found to the east, and Monagas State is found to the west.
English: Locator map of the Municipio Alto Orinoco; in Amazonas, Venezuela This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors.