Key facts
- Countries
- Colombia Venezuela
- Location
- Venezuela
- Elevation
- 3,912 m (12,835 ft) (Páramo Batallón)
- Length
- 1,038 km (645 mi)
- Basin size
- 167,000 km (64,000 mi )
- Average
- 2,300 m /s (81,000 cu ft/s)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stream
- Country
- Venezuela
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- Río Apure 2.jpg
- Length
- 1580
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- tributary
- Uribante River
- drainage basin
- Amazon basin
- Commons category
- Apure River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Orinoco River
- watershed area
- 147000
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The Apure River is a river of southwestern Venezuela, formed by the confluence of the Sarare and Uribante near Guasdualito, in Venezuela, at 7°15′N 70°40′W / 7.250°N 70.667°W / 7.250; -70.667, and flowing across the Llanos into the Orinoco. It provides significant transportation in the area.
Origin
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apure River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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