Rio Negro (Amazon)

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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.

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Negro River (Río Negro)
Guainía River
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Sunset ower the Rio Negro, upstream frae Manaus
Kintras Brazil, Colombie, Venezuela
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]
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Cairt shawin the Rio Negro in the Amazon Basin
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