River
Caroní River
765 km from source to mouth · Venezuela.
VenezuelaFlows into Orinoco River4th longest in Venezuela
In numbers
Length
765km
Average flow
4,800m³/s
Basin
97,000km²
Drop
825m
from 832 m to 7 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
765 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmYuruaní Riverat 832 m
- 3 kmKukenán Rivertributary
- 75 kmAponwao Rivertributary
- 192 kmIkabaru Rivertributary
- 430 kmCarrao Rivertributary
- 523 kmParagua Rivertributary
- 640 kmGuri Reservoir3,661 km²
- 707 kmCaruachi Reservoir165 km²
- 728 kmMacagua Reservoir56 km²
- 733 kmLlovizna Falls
- 734 kmCiudad Guayana751,331 people
- 765 kmOrinoco Riverat 7 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Venezuela
At the mouth it carries 4,850 m³/s on average: 1.9 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 832 m to 7 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 97,000 km², about the size of KR. 681,000 people live in it. Highest water: from July to August; lowest: from January to April. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 100% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- Ciudad GuayanaLargest city on its banks · 751,331 people
- General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport (PZO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 9 km from the cityCar hire at POS airport (Port of Spain)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe163 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From January to MarchThe best months to visit
Caroní River, month by month
Highest water: from July to August
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from January to March.
From about 1,200 m³/s in the lowest month to 8,500 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Caroní River: the basin in numbers
92,046 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 681,000people live in the basin
- 8/km²people per km²
- 640maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,632mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.9°Caverage air temperature
- 85%protected areas
- 4.2%covered by lakes
- 139km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 74% Forest
- 2% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Caroní River: what you find on the way
- 2WeirsDique
- 30WaterfallsSalto Pampatá, Salto Eutobarima, Salto Cachamay and 27 more
- 163RapidsRaudales de Mureyema, Rápidos de Remotó, Rápidos de Karukuya and 160 more
- 2MarinasMarina del Ítalo
- 6River beachesPlaya Punta Kaleta, Playa and 4 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Caroní 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Llovizna Fallskm 702
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Guri Reservoirkm 613 · 170 m deep3,661km²
- Caruachi Reservoirkm 677165km²
- Macagua Reservoirkm 69856km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cerro Pawí14 km away1,180m
- Cerro Yuoromotá11 km away1,030m
- Caco-tepuí11 km away
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
Caroní River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Orinoco RiverVenezuela2,140 km30,000 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Kukenán River, Carrao River, Paragua River, Aponwao River, Ikabaru River, Karuay River, Yuruaní River
ColombiaNearby
Rivers nearby
Trinidad and Tobago
GuyanaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q590533) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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