Rio Negro

Also known as Negro River

tributary of the Amazon river

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The Rio Negro is a major tributary that flows into the Amazon River in South America. It is one of the Amazon's largest branches and plays an important role in the Amazon basin's hydrology and ecosystems.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: river
Country: Venezuela
Continent: South America
Image: RioNegro.jpg
Length: 2250

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drainage basin: Amazon basin
described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia
discharge: 30000
watershed area: 720114
Commons category: Negro River (tributary of the Amazon)
mouth of the watercourse: Amazon
topic's main category: Category:Rio Negro (Amazon)
tributary: Vaupés River
basin country: Colombia
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Encyclopedic overview

The Rio Negro (Spanish: Río Negro [ˈri.o ˈneɣɾo], Portuguese: Rio Negro [ˈʁi.u ˈneɡɾu], "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge. It originates in the tepuis of the department of Guainía, Colombia, and then flows southeastward before finally entering Brazil. Despite its high flow, the Rio Negro has a low sediment load (5.76 million tonnes per year on average in Manaus).

Geography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rio Negro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.