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Middle Orinoco – 805 kilometres (500 mi) long, divided into two sectors, the first of which ca. 515 kilometres (320 mi) long has a general westward direction down to the confluence with the Atabapo and Guaviare rivers at San Fernando de Atabapo; the second flows northward, for about 290 kilometres (180 mi), along the Venezuelan–Colombian ...
The Orinoco Basin is the part of South America drained by the Orinoco river and its tributaries. The Orinoco watershed covers an area of about 990000 km 2 , making it the third largest in South America, covering most of Venezuela and eastern part of Colombia .
The delta is fan-shaped, formed by the Orinoco River as it splits into numerous distributaries, called caños, which meander through the delta on their way to the sea.The main distributary is called the Rio Grande, which empties south-southeast through the southern portion of the delta, and the second major distributary is Caño Manamo, which runs northward along the western edge of the delta.
The Orinoquía region is one of the six natural regions of Colombia that belongs to the Orinoco River watershed. It is also known colloquially as the Eastern Plains from the Spanish Llanos Orientales. The region covers most of the area of the departments of Arauca, Casanare, Meta, and Vichada. [1]
Because of its natural structure, Colombia can be divided into six distinct natural regions.These consist of the Andean Region, covering the three branches of the Andes mountains found in Colombia; the Caribbean Region, covering the area adjacent to the Caribbean Sea; the Pacific Region adjacent to the Pacific Ocean; the Orinoquía Region, part of the Llanos plains mainly in the Orinoco river ...
Cichla orinocensis, sometimes known as the Orinoco peacock bass, [2] tucunaré [1] or tucunaré miri, [2] is a very large species of cichlid. This peacock bass is native to the Rio Negro and Orinoco River basins in northern South America. [3] It mainly occurs in blackwater rivers. [4]
Orinoco goose Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: Neochen Species: N. jubata Binomial name Neochen jubata (Spix, 1825) Synonyms Oressochen jubatus The Orinoco goose (Neochen jubata) is a Near Threatened species of waterfowl in the tribe Tadornini of ...
RMS Orinoco was a British Royal Mail Ship that was built in Scotland in 1886 and scrapped, also in Scotland, in 1909. She spent her entire career with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP), mainly trading between England and the Caribbean .