River
Caroni River
40 km from source to mouth · Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago
In numbers
Length
40km
Average flow
17m³/s
Basin
600km²
Drop
23m
from 26 m to 3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
40 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 26 m
- 40 kmMouthat 3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Trinidad and Tobago
At the mouth it carries 17 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 144 seconds. It drops from 26 m to 3 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 600 km².
Where to start
- LaventilleLargest city on its banks · 21,000 people
- Piarco International Airport (POS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 19 km from the cityCar hire at POS airport (Port of Spain)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Caroni River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 1Boat ramps
- 2Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Caroni River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
6beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
9mountains at the sourcePeakyas
10islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (6)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Maracas Beach16 km away29.0°C
- Trou Tazar20 km away · cove29.1°C
- Saut d’Eau Cave14 km away · cove28.9°C
- Anse Paoua21 km away · cove29.1°C
- Grande Ravine20 km away · cove29.1°C
- Escondida Cove16 km away · cove29.1°C
Mountains at the source (9)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- El Cerro del Aripo14 km away · prominence 940 m940m
- Tamana Hill14 km away
- Mount Tamana14 km away
- Ismael Hill14 km away
- Heights of Guanapo12 km away
- Morne Poui12 km away
- Morne Croix14 km away
- Chaguaramal13 km away
1 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (10)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Chacachacare28 km away3.6km²
- Monos23 km away3.9km²
- Huevos26 km away1.0km²
- Gaspar Grande18 km away1.3km²
- Carrera Island15 km away0.1km²
- Caledonia Island12 km away
- Saut d'Eau16 km away0.1km²
- Gasparillo Island18 km away0.0km²
2 more on IslandyasIslandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Caroni River in pictures
VenezuelaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q5045524) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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