Kaka River
Rio Kaka
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The Río Mapiri is a river in the Bolivian part of South America.
The source of the river lies in the Bolivian Cordillera Mapiri on the southwestern slope of the Ancohuma at an altitude of 4755 m in the lake Laguna Huara Huarani. The river does not in its total length Río Mapiri, but also contributes in various sections of its course different names, the river partially contributes duplicate names and the names of sections are not clearly assigned to specific sections of the river.
Course
Río San Cristobal
The first section of the river from the source lake Laguna Huara Huarani up to the coming of the left confluence with the Río Molina Pampa has a length of 45 kilometers. It is called Río San Cristobal and flows past the town of Sorata. The Río Molina Pampa forms the border between the province Larecaja and the province Muñecas and joins the Río San Cristobal at an altitude of 1725 m at 15 ° 34 ' 18 "S, 68 ° 46' 25 " W 15.571666666667 - 68.773611111111.
Río Llica
After the Río Molina Pampa and Río San Cristobal River about 90 km is called Río Llica and flows in a northwesterly direction. On this route flows from the left of the Río Copani to, and no later than the union of the river with the coming of Río Camata left at kilometer 137 and at 15 ° 17 ' 56 "S, 68 ° 16' 13" W 15.298888888889 68.270277777778 - called the flow then Río Mapiri. However, Military maps give the river as early as the Río Copani the name Río Mapiri, in parts of the river here bears the name Río Consata.
Important Place on the left of the Río Llica is Aucapata and the pre-Inca settlement Iskanwaya right of the river are the villages Quiabaya, Collobamba and Comsata.
Río Mapiri
The Río Mapiri between the Río Camata and the Rio Zongo has long been used in past centuries for gold recovery, and even today are located along the right bank nearby cities Mapiri Guanay and yet simple gold-panning sites. The name Mapiri used for this section of the river at least until the left-hand tributary of the Río Aten, but mostly to the influx of Río Tipuani, Río Challana and Rio Zongo / Coroico between Guanay and Teoponte, occasionally you will find the name also to the mouth of the Río Beni. The river flows in this section in a southeasterly direction and drops to only 49 kilometers by 103 meters.
Rio Kaka
By no later than 222 km at 15 ° 30 '3 " S, 67 ° 50 ' 48" W 15.500833333333 67.846666666667 - if from the right Coroico River flows, the river is called Río Kaka. The river now has a height of 411 m, and it flows beyond Teoponte by almost uninhabited areas and winds up on his last 92 kilometers through steep Vorgebirgstäler, until it finally reaches to a height of 283 m the Río Beni. Across the estuary lies the small resort of Puerto Carmen.
- Amazon River system
- River in South America
- River in Bolivia
- La Paz Department