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The Cauca River (Spanish: Río Cauca) is a river in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central cordilleras.From its headwaters in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popayán, it joins the Magdalena River near Magangué in Bolívar Department, and the combined river eventually flows out into the Caribbean Sea.
The Ituango Dam, also referred to as the Pescadero-Ituango Dam or Hidroituango, is an embankment dam currently under construction on the Cauca River near Ituango in Antioquia Department, Colombia. The primary purpose of the project is hydroelectric power generation and its power plant will have an installed capacity of 2,456 megawatts ...
Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.
Valle de Pubenza (es: Pubenza Valley) is a high valley located between the central and eastern mountain ranges in southwestern Colombia and constitutes the hydrographic basin of the upper part of the Cauca river, which has its source in the Páramo de las Papas, pours tis water into the reservoir of Salvajina. The altitude of this valley ranges ...
The western part of the mountain range belongs to the Pacific region of Colombia, with the San Juan River being the main watershed, while the eastern part belongs to the Cauca River basin. The northern and northwestern parts belong to the Atlantic Slope, with the Atrato and Sinú Rivers being the main watersheds.
Astyanax caucanus was originally described from the Cauca River Basin in Colombia, [13] and is solely recorded from the country (located in the far northwest of South America). [14] Since discovery, additional populations have been documented in the Magdalena River Basin, another basin in Colombia.
The Magdalena River basin, which includes the Cauca River and other tributaries, are very rich in fish. As of 2008, 213 fish species were known from the basin. [9] Since then several new species have been described from the basin such as five Hemibrycon in 2013, [10] two Ancistrus in 2013 [11] and a Farlowella in 2014. [12]
The Cauca Valley runs from south to north between the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Occidental of the Colombian Andes. It has an area of 3,211,585 hectares (7,936,000 acres). [1] The ecoregion covers both sides of the Cauca River valley, above the narrow strip of Cauca Valley dry forests that runs along the river.