Arauca River

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The Arauca River is a significant waterway in northern South America that forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela and feeds into the Orinoco River basin.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Arauca River canonical 8
Río Arauca 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf river
basinCountry Colombia
Venezuela
borderRiverOf Colombia
Venezuela
climateZone tropical
continent South America
country Colombia
Venezuela
flowsGenerallyTowards east
flowsThrough Apure State
Arauca Department
formsBorderBetween Colombia
Venezuela
hasBiodiversityType freshwater
hasEconomicActivity cattle ranching
fishing
hasEnvironmentalIssue bank erosion
seasonal flooding
hasFloodplain Orinoco Llanos floodplains
surface form: Llanos
hasLanguageOrigin Spanish
hasMajorCityOnBank Arauca Department
surface form: Arauca

El Amparo
hasNameInLanguage Arauca River self-linksurface differs
surface form: Río Arauca
hasPoliticalSignificance international boundary
isPartOf Colombia–Venezuela border region
surface form: Colombia–Venezuela border
locatedInEcoregion Los Llanos
surface form: Llanos
locatedInHydrologicalSystem Orinoco Basin
surface form: Orinoco basin
locatedInRegion northern South America
mouthLocatedIn Orinoco River
partOf Orinoco Basin
surface form: Orinoco River basin
tributaryOf Orinoco River
usedFor irrigation
transportation
watercourseType transboundary river

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Orinoco Basin tributaryRiver Arauca River
Arauca Department traversedByRiver Arauca River
eastern Colombia mainRiver Arauca River
subject surface form: Eastern Colombia
Arauca River hasNameInLanguage Arauca River self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Río Arauca
Eastern Plains of Colombia hasRiver Arauca River
Apure State traversedBy Arauca River