List of rivers of Colombia

Summary

Map of Colombia showing major rivers

Atlantic Ocean edit

Amazon River Basin edit

 
Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted
 
The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems. That links two major river systems, a so-called bifurcation.

Orinoco River Basin edit

 
The Orinoco drainage basin

Lake Maracaibo edit

 
Tributaries of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracaibo

Caribbean Sea edit

 
Magdalena River Basin
 
Cauca River course
 
Bogotá River and its drainage basin

< Canal del Dique (Levee Channel) - artificial bifurcation

Pacific Ocean edit

 
Pacific region in Colombia highlighted

See also edit

References edit

  • Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  • GEOnet Names Server