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Key facts
- Country
- Argentina
- Provinces
- Neuquén Río Negro Buenos Aires
- Region
- Patagonia
- Cities
- Neuquén Villa Regina
- Source
- Limay River
- Location
- Nahuel Huapi Lake , Neuquén
- Coordinates
- 41°03′20″S 71°09′07″W / 41.05556°S 71.15194°W / -41.05556; -71.15194
- Elevation
- 770 m (2,530 ft)
- 2nd source
- Neuquén River
- Mouth
- Atlantic Ocean
- Length
- 550 km (340 mi)
- Basin size
- 102,000 km (39,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 762.5 m /s (26,930 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 181 m /s (6,400 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 2,068 m /s (73,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Neuquén River
- Right
- Limay River
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Argentina
- Located in
- Río Negro Province
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- Vista aérea Viedma - Carmen de Patagones.jpg
- Length
- 635
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- Commons category
- Negro River (Río Negro)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Atlantic Ocean
- category for the water basin
- Category:Río Negro Basin
- watershed area
- 132275
- discharge
- 1014
- origin of the watercourse
- Limay River
- basin country
- Argentina
- native label
- Río Negro
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Encyclopedic overview
Río Negro ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈneɣɾo]; Black River) is the main river of Patagonia in terms of the size of its drainage basin, its associated agricultural produce and population living at its shores. In eastern Patagonia it is also the largest by flow rate. The river flows through the Argentine province of Río Negro which is named after it. Its name comes from the literal translation of the Mapuche term Curu Leuvu, although the water is more green than black. Formerly, it was also known as "river of the willows" because of the big number of weeping willows that grow along the bank. It is 635 km in length.
It originates from the junction of the Limay River and Neuquén River at the border with the Neuquén Province, and flows southeast incised through steppes to the Atlantic Ocean at 41°01′20″S 62°47′25″W / 41.0223°S 62.7903°W / -41.0223; -62.7903, near El Cóndor beach resort some 30 km (19 mi) downstream from Viedma, Río Negro province's capital.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Río Negro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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