River
Río Cuareim
351 km from source to mouth · Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
Argentina, Brazil and UruguayFlows into Uruguay River
In numbers
Length
351km
Average flow
330m³/s
Basin
14,865km²
Drop
178m
from 214 m to 36 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
351 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBrazilat 214 m
- 100 kmArroyo Catalán Grandetributary
- 126 kmPuente Internacional de la Concordia
- 126 kmQuaraí22,607 people
- 130 kmArtigas43,897 people
- 272 kmArroyo Cuaró Grandetributary
- 301 kmArroyo Yucutujátributary
- 337 kmBarra do Quaraí4,241 people
- 351 kmUruguay Riverat 36 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 326 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.7 seconds. It drops from 214 m to 36 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 14,865 km², about the size of TL. 82,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ArtigasLargest city on its banks · 43,897 people
- Rubem Berta Airport (URG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 88 km from the cityCar hire in Santa MariaDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Río Cuareim, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 190 m³/s in the lowest month to 520 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
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The basin
Río Cuareim: the basin in numbers
14,641 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 82,000people live in the basin
- 6/km²people per km²
- 151maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,338mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 19.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 10% Forest
- 6% Cropland
- 77% 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.
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
Río Cuareim in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Uruguay RiverUruguay1,790 km4.6 m³/sTributaries (20)
Also: Arroyo Catalán Grande, Arroyo Yucutujá, Arroyo Cuaró Grande, Arroyo Tamanduá, Arroyo Yacaré Grande, Arroyo Chiflero, Arroyo Pintadito, Arroyo Pintado Grande, Arroyo Sepulturas, Arroyo Tres Cruces Grande, Arroyo Yacot, Arroyo de Lemos, Arroyo de la Aruera, Arroyo de la Invernada, Arroyo de la Raposa, Arroyo del Cortado, Arroyo Guayubirá, Arroyo Piedra Pintada, Arroyo de María Lemos, Arroyo del Tigre
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Argentina2,621 km2.7 m³/s333 km awaySalado RiverArgentina1,150 km15 m³/s335 km awayRío NegroUruguay916 km650 m³/s361 km awayParaná RiverUruguay4,880 km16,000 m³/s424 km awayBermejo
Paraguay1,060 km340 m³/s375 km awayYí RiverUruguay294 km290 m³/s337 km awayDulce RiverArgentina650 km80 m³/s472 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1279982) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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