Rio Negro (Amazon)
lairgest left tributary o the Amazon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rio Negro (Portuguese: Rio Negro [ˈʁi.u nɛɡɾu]; Spaingie: Río Negro [ˈri.o ˈneɣɾo] "Black River") is the lairgest left tributary o the Amazon, the lairgest blackwatter river in the warld, an ane o the warld's ten lairgest rivers in average discharge.
Negro River (Río Negro) | |
Guainía River | |
Sunset ower the Rio Negro, upstream frae Manaus | |
Kintras | Brazil, Colombie, Venezuela |
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Tributaries | |
- left | Branco River (an mony smawer rivers) |
- right | Vaupés River (an mony smawer rivers) |
Soorce | heichlands o Colombie |
- location | Guainía Depairtment, Amazon region, Colombie |
Mooth | Amazon River |
- location | Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil |
- coordinates | 3°08′00″S 59°54′30″W |
Lenth | 2,250 km (1,400 mi) [1] |
Basin | 691,000 km2 (267,000 sq mi) |
Discharge | for mooth |
- average | 28,000 m3/s (988,800 cu ft/s) [2] |
Cairt shawin the Rio Negro in the Amazon Basin |
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