Catatumbo River

Catatumbo thunderstorm in the mouth region

Location of the Río Catatumbo

The Río Catatumbo is a 500 km long river in Colombia and Venezuela in the north of South America.

The Río Catatumbo rises in the Colombian Eastern Cordillera at Cerro de las Jurisdicciones. In the upper reaches it bears the name Río Algodonal. It flows through the Colombian County Departamento de Norte de Santander. The river flows north through the mountains. It then flows east past the city of Ocaña. Later he devoted himself to the northeast, and finally to the east and reaches the lowlands. He crossed the border into Venezuela and flows through the Venezuelan state of Zulia, and then flow into the Lake Maracaibo. In Encontrados the Río Zulia right empties into the river. Other major tributaries of the Río Catatumbo are Río Chiquito, El Río Brandy and Río de Oro from the left and Río El Tarra, Río ORU and Río Sardinata from the right. Located in Colombia National Park Catatumbo Barí covers the territory northwest of the middle reaches.

• Río Catatumbo river system
• River in South America
• River in Colombia
• River in Venezuela
• Departamento de Norte de Santander
• Zulia