Emba Venez UK·Rivers
Rivers
The Orinoco system and the Casiquiare — hydrology, history of survey and the bifurcation that links two basins.
3 pages in Rivers
Full index- The River That Connects Two BasinsA 335-kilometre natural channel quietly links two of South America's greatest river systems — and the science took two centuries to catch up with what Amazonian peoples…Key measurements · 4 entries
2,140 Kilometres from Parima to the AtlanticThe Orinoco is not merely a river but the axis around which Venezuela's geography organises itself — drainage, ecology, settlement and culture all arrayed along its arc…Key measurements · 8 entries
The Narrows and the Colonial Town Above ThemAt its narrowest navigable reach, the Orinoco squeezes to roughly 2,000 metres — and it is here that both a colonial capital and a mid-twentieth-century bridge made their…Key measurements · 4 entries
The other sections
- Land & Water6 pages
- Tepuis3 pages
- Maracaibo3 pages
- Coasts3 pages
- Species6 pages
- Built & Played6 pages
- The Record7 pages