Key facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Location
- Colombia
- Coordinates
- 8°10′45.2″N 76°56′28.7″W / 8.179222°N 76.941306°W / 8.179222; -76.941306
- Length
- 750 km (470 mi)
- Basin size
- 37,810 km (14,600 sq mi) 35,996.7 km (13,898.4 mi )
- Average
- 3,993 m /s (141,000 cu ft/s) 3,767.992 m /s (133,065.4 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Truando
- Right
- Murrí, Sucio
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Rivers in Colombia. Atrato is in the far northwest of the country near the Panama border
The Atrato River (Spanish: Río Atrato) is a river of northwestern Colombia. It rises in the slopes of the Western Cordillera and flows almost due north to the Gulf of Urabá (or Gulf of Darién), where it forms a large, swampy delta. Its course crosses the Chocó Department, forming that department's border with neighboring Antioquia in two places. Its total length is about 650 km (400 mi), and it is navigable as far as Quibdó (400 km / 250 mi), the capital of the department.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atrato River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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