Key facts
- Country
- Argentina
- Province
- Chubut Province
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Argentina
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- Rawson desde el rio chubut.JPG
- Length
- 810
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- discharge
- 30
- tributary
- Chico River
- Commons category
- Chubut River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Atlantic Ocean
- watershed area
- 53801
- P12749
- Kobresia myosuroides
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Chubut River ( English: /tʃʊˈbʊt/; Spanish: Río Chubut; Welsh: Afon Camwy [ˈavɔn ˈkamʊɨ̯]) is located in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina. Its name comes from the Tehuelche word chupat, which means 'transparent'. The Argentine Chubut Province, through which the river flows, is named after it. Welsh settlers called the river Afon Camwy, meaning 'twisting river'.
The river is generally shallow and its water flow can vary from 4 to 400 cubic metres per second (140 to 14,130 cu ft/s) between drought and flood. Average discharge is about 60 cubic metres per second (2,100 cu ft/s).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chubut River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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