River
Caura River
745 km from source to mouth · Venezuela.
VenezuelaFlows into Orinoco River5th longest in Venezuela
In numbers
Length
745km
Average flow
3,500m³/s
Basin
52,000km²
Drop
860m
from 875 m to 15 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
745 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 875 m
- 408 kmErebato Rivertributary
- 459 kmPara Falls
- 663 kmLaguna Cubarral0.4 km²
- 670 kmLaguna Brava0.3 km²
- 671 kmLaguna San José0.6 km²
- 673 kmLaguna Aricagua4.5 km²
- 701 kmLaguna Guaipure2.9 km²
- 719 kmLaguna Soto0.4 km²
- 745 kmOrinoco Riverat 15 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 3,500 m³/s on average: 1.4 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 875 m to 15 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 52,000 km², about the size of BA. 32,000 people live in it. Highest water: from July to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MapireA town on its banks
- San Tomé Airport (SOM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 147 km from the city
- From January to MarchThe best months to visit
Caura River, month by month
Highest water: from July to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from January to March.
From about 660 m³/s in the lowest month to 5,700 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
Caura River: the basin in numbers
47,862 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 32,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 444maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,843mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.1°Caverage air temperature
- 92%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 93% Forest
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
Caura River: what you find on the way
- 2WaterfallsPara Falls, Las Pavas Falls
- 1River beachesPlaya El Playón
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Caura 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
6lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Para Fallskm 469
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (6)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna Cubarralkm 6770.4km²
- Laguna Bravakm 6840.3km²
- Laguna San Josékm 6850.6km²
- Laguna Aricaguakm 6874.5km²
- Laguna Guaipurekm 7162.9km²
- Laguna Sotokm 7340.4km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cerro Uemachu13 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
Caura River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Orinoco RiverVenezuela2,140 km30,000 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Erebato River
ColombiaNearby
Rivers nearby
Trinidad and TobagoWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1121956) · 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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