Ventuari River

The Ventuari River is the largest tributary of the Orinoco in southern Venezuela.^[1] The Ventuari flows from south-central Venezuela in the Guiana Highlands southwest into the Orinoco River. It is 520 km (320 mi) long and its major tributary is the Manapiare River.

Ventuari River
Mouth location in Venezuela
Native name	Rio Ventuari (Spanish)
Location
Country	Venezuela
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• coordinates	3°59′40″N 67°02′07″W
Length	520 km (320 mi)
Basin size	40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	2,000 m3/s (71,000 cu ft/s)
Basin features
River system	Orinoco

The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion.^[2] The Ventuari River is the largest clearwater tributary of the Orinoco.^[1] As of 2006^[update], 470 fish species were known from the river, including several endemics, and a few new species have been described from the river since then.^[1]

References

1. Montaña, C.G.; H. López-Fernández; D.C. Taphorn (2008). "A new species of Crenicichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the Rio Ventuari, Upper Rio Orinoco, Amazonas State, Venezuela". Zootaxa. 1856: 33–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1856.1.3. S2CID 18250036.
2. Sears, Robin, South America: Southern Venezuela, northern Brazil, western Guyana, and eastern Colombia (NT0124), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-04-01

• Hitchcock, Charles B. La región Orinoco Ventuari. Relato de la Expedición Phelps al Cerro Yaví. Caracas: Ministerio de Educación Nacional, Imprenta El Compás, 1984 (Translated from an older English Edition: The Orinoco - Ventuari Region. American Geographical Society, 1947).
• Koch-Grünberg, Theodor. Vom Roraima zum Orinoco. 1917. Reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00630-9.