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Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Location
- Miño Volcano
- Coordinates
- 21°7′10″S 68°37′5″W / 21.11944°S 68.61806°W / -21.11944; -68.61806
- Elevation
- 4,277 m (14,032 ft)
- Length
- 440 km (270 mi)
- Basin size
- 33,570 km (12,960 sq mi)
- Average
- 2.43 m /s (86 cu ft/s)
- Left
- San Pedro de Inacaliri River , Salado River
- Right
- San Salvador River
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Tarapacá Region
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- Río Loa en Calama.jpg
- Length
- 440
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- Commons category
- Loa River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Pacific Ocean
- watershed area
- 33600
- discharge
- 243
- origin of the watercourse
- Miño Volcano
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Encyclopedic overview
Loa River in Calama
The Loa River (Spanish: Río Loa) is a U-shaped river in Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. At 440 km (270 mi) long, it is the country's longest river and the main watercourse in the Atacama Desert.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loa River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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