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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2 410 km 1 497.5 miles. Its drainage basin sometimes called the Orinoquia covers 880 000 km² 23.7% in Colombia with the rest in Venezuela. The Orinoco and tributaries was and still is the major transportation system for eastern and interior Venezuela and the llanos of Columbia. ________ At its mouth it forms a wide delta that branches off into hundreds of rivers and waterways that flow through 41 000 km² of swampy forests. In the rainy season the Orinoco can swell to a breadth of 22 kilometres and a depth of 100 meters. Most of the important Venezuelan rivers are tributaries of the Orinoco the largest being the Caroní which joins it at Puerto Ordaz close to the Llovizna Falls. A peculiarity of the Orinoco river system is the Casiquiare canal which starts as an arm of the Orinoco and finds its way to the Rio Negro a tributary of the Amazon thus forming a 'natural canal' between Orinoco and Amazon. __________ The river is navigable for most of its length and dredging enables ocean ships to go as far as Ciudad Bolívar the conflence of the Caroní River [[435 km upstream. River steamers carry cargo as far as Puerto Ayacucho and the Atures Rapids. The Orinoco river deposits also contains extensive tar sands which may be a source of future oil production ____________ The city of Guayana and the Alcaldia Mayor de Caroní ALMACARONÍ has for the past 15 years conducted a swim race of the rivers Orinoco and Caroní with around 900 competitors. The "Paso a Nado Internacional de los Rios Orinoco-Caroní" is celebrated every year on a Sunday close to the 19th of April. Worldwide this swim-meet has gained importance and it has a large number of competitors. | | Headline | The Orinco flows into the Gulf of Paria | | Copyright Notice | wiki/Orinoco | | URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco |
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