River
Ventuari River
520 km from source to mouth · Venezuela.
VenezuelaFlows into Orinoco River6th longest in Venezuela
In numbers
Length
520km
Average flow
2,200m³/s
Basin
40,000km²
Drop
1,126m
from 1,216 m to 90 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
520 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,216 m
- 257 kmManapiare Rivertributary
- 288 kmLaguna de Manaca0.6 km²
- 299 kmLaguna Ceniza0.6 km²
- 403 kmParú Rivertributary
- 520 kmOrinoco Riverat 90 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Venezuelo
At the mouth it carries 2,159 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.2 seconds. It drops from 1,216 m to 90 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 40,000 km², about the size of CH. 12,000 people live in it. Highest water: from July to August; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- San Fernando de AtabapoLargest city on its banks · 11,929 people
- Obando Cesar Gaviria Trujillo Airport (PDA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 31 km from the city
- From December to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Ventuari River, month by month
Highest water: from July to August
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from December to February.
From about 260 m³/s in the lowest month to 6,000 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
Ventuari River: the basin in numbers
40,842 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 12,000people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 492maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,901mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.2°Caverage air temperature
- 36%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 91% 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.
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna de Manacakm 2760.6km²
- Laguna Cenizakm 2870.6km²
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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
Ventuari River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Orinoco RiverVenezuela2,140 km30,000 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Manapiare River, Parú River, Río Marueta
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Colombia1,497 km8,200 m³/s75 km awayCasiquiare canalVenezuela326 km2,400 m³/s222 km awayMeta RiverColombia1,000 km6,500 m³/s249 km awayArauca RiverVenezuela900 km800 m³/s392 km awayApure RiverVenezuela1,580 km2,600 m³/s410 km awayVaupés River
Brazil1,050 km4,300 m³/s440 km awayCaura RiverVenezuela745 km3,500 m³/s477 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1349924) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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