Tacuarí River

The Río Tacuarí is a river in eastern Uruguay.

It originates in the area of the department of Cerro Largo west of Punta del Parao in Cuchilla Guazunambí. From there flows a total length of 230 km initially in a northerly direction and changes the flow direction after a relatively short distance to the east, then south of Melo from northwest to southeast to the border of Treinta y Tres to flow. He passed the places Arachania and later Plácido Rosas. In its further course it forms to the mouth of the Departamentogrenze. He finally flows west-southwest of Lake Merín in the Laguna Merín. The size of its catchment area is in about 3,600 km ². A tributary of the Río Tacuarí is the Arroyo del Chuy Tacuarí.

In Río Negro and the Río Tacuarí pool the previously unknown cichlid species Gymnogeophagus was discovered tiraparae in 2009.