Its name comes from the Guarauno word for "a place to paddle", because few rivers in the area are navigable.
Its name comes from the Guarauno word for "a place to paddle", because few rivers in the area are navigable. Major tributaries include the Aruaca, the Casquiare canal, and its largest tributary, the Caroní. It is bordered by the Andes Mountains to the west and flows along the Guiana Highlands as well through the llanos (YAH-nohs), or plains, making up three-fifths of its namesake basin north of the another tributary, the Guaviare. It then empties into the Atlantic Ocean at the Gulf of Paría. Making up the fourth-largest river system in South America, for ten points, name this river that flows through Venezuela and Colombia.
Its name comes from the Guarauno word for "a place to paddle", because few rivers in the area are navigable.
{Orinoco} River