RÃo Negro (Argentina)
North Patagonia with the Río Negro
Aerial view of the Rio Negro in Viedma
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
It arises from the confluence of the rivers Limay and Neuquen in the eponymous city of Neuquen. From there, it flows eastward across Patagonia and gets to its mouth no further significant inflows more. Above Choele Choel, the river splits in two arms, forming several large islands, and then to unite below Choele Choel become a river bed. He then continues to flow in a southeasterly direction and empties about 30 miles downriver from Viedma in the Atlantic.
The Neuquén river as the source of the Rio Negro reached a total length of 1147 kilometers. However, seen Hydrological is the slightly shorter Limay the main river because its average discharge of 726 m3 / s of the Neuquén with only 296m3 / s significantly exceeds.