page_title: Cauca River
hierarchical_section_title: Cauca River
caption_attribution_description: Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests are patchily distributed and in peril. In Antioquia, this inter-Andean valley is a narrow canyon bounded by the humid slopes of the Andean cordilleras and enclosed by the belt of lowland humid rainforests of the Lower Cauca-Nechí "refuge". Increasing landscape change and a forthcoming massive flooding for a hydroelectric dam (Pescadero-Ituango) threaten the poorly known biota of this canyon, including a rare, new bird species that is endemic to it, just discovered by a team led by Carlos Esteban Lara and with the collaboration of Sandra V. Valderrama Ortiz, Diego Calderón, Daniel Cadena, and me. (Auk 129:537–550; for a PDF click: www.museum.lsu.edu/cuervo/pubs_files/Thryophilus.sernai_A...).
context_page_description: The Cauca River is a river in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central cordilleras. From its headwaters in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popayán, it joins the Magdalena River near Magangué in Bolívar Department, and the combined river eventually flows out into the Caribbean Sea. It has a length of 965 km to its junction with the Magdalena, for a total length of 1,350 km. from origin to seamouth. The river is under the supervision of the Corporación Regional del Cauca and the Corporación Autonoma Regional del Valle del Cauca, and is navigable for 640 km above its junction with the Magdalena.
context_section_description: The Cauca River (Spanish: Río Cauca) is a river in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central cordilleras. From its headwaters in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popayán, it joins the Magdalena River near Magangué in Bolívar Department, and the combined river eventually flows out into the Caribbean Sea. It has a length of 965 km (600 mi) to its junction with the Magdalena, for a total length of 1,350 km (840 mi). from origin to seamouth. The river is under the supervision of the Corporación Regional del Cauca and the Corporación Autonoma Regional del Valle del Cauca, and is navigable for 640 km (400 mi) above its junction with the Magdalena.
caption: Cauca River in Nechí, Antioquia
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