Guárico River

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The Guárico is an approximately 525 km long river in the state of Guárico in Venezuela.

The river rises in the south of the capital Caracas lying part of the Cordillera de la Costa and flows thence in a southerly direction. The still located at the headwaters Camatagua Reservoir is the water supply of Caracas. Even the flat and through the rain shadow of the coastal mountains and relatively dry hinterland of the Llanos centrals with the city Calabazo uses the supplied water intensive.

The Rio Orituco is the most important tributary, it flows south Calabazo from the left in the Guárico.

The lower reaches of the Guárico is already in a transition zone to the tropical rain forest; the ruling here abundance of rainfall can not be handled by the main course of the river. It has emerged in this area around the city of San Fernando de Apure, a dense network of tributaries and marshes that flow to the Orinoco on the Rio Apure.

Credentials

• Orinoco River system
• River in South America
• River in Venezuela
• Guárico