 The Paraguay River near Asunción The River Paraguay (Rio Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese) is a major river in south central South America, running through Brazil and Paraguay and forming a border between Brazil and Bolivia as well as Paraguay and Argentina. It runs over a course of approximately 2,549 kilometers (1,584 miles) from its headwaters in the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso to its confluence with the Parana River north of Corrientes. Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 258 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. ...
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Course The River Paraguay is born south of Diamantino in Mato Grosso, Brazil. It follows a generally southwesterly course, passing through the Brazilian city of Cáceres. It then turns in a generally southward direction, flowing through the Pantanal wetlands, the city of Corumbá, and then forming the Brazil-Bolivia border for a short distance. Cáceres is an important city in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. ...
The Pantanal is a vast wetland area covering portions of Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. ...
Corumbá is a city in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km Southwest of Campo Grande, the states capital. ...
From the city of Puerto Bahia Negra, Paraguay, the river forms the border between Paraguay and Brazil, flowing almost due south for approximately 220 kilometers before the confluence with the Apa River.
The Paraguay makes a long, gentle curve to the south-southeast before resuming a more south-southwest course, dividing the country of Paraguay into two distinct halves: the Gran Chaco region to the west, a largely uninhabited semi-arid region; and the eastern forested departments of the country, accounting for some 98% of the country's inhabitants. As such the river is considered perhaps the key geographical feature to the country with which it shares its name. Landscape in the Gran Chaco, Paraguay The Gran Chaco (Quechua chaqu, hunting land), dubbed by some as the last South American frontier, is an arid, sparsely populated, very hot, semi-desertic, lowland region of the River Plate basin, divided between Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and a small portion in Brazil called...
Some 400 kilometers after flowing through the middle of Paraguay, at the confluence with the Pilcomayo river and passing the Paraguayan capital city, Asunción, the river forms the border with Argentina, flowing generally south-southwesterly for another 275 kilometers before it reaches its end, joining with the Parana River. The Pilcomayo is a river rising in the Bolivian Andes, east of Lake Poopó, flowing over 700 miles across Chaco into the Paraguay River near Asunción. ...
Map of Paraguay Panteón de los Héroes in Asunción Asunción, population 500,939 (1992), is the capital of Paraguay. ...
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 Deep water port on the River Paraguay in Asunción, Paraguay The River Paraguay is the second major river in the River Plate watershed, covering a vast area of land that includes major portions of northern Argentina, southern Brazil, Uruguay, parts of Bolivia and the entire country of Paraguay. Unlike many of the other great rivers of the Parana basin, the Paraguay has not been dammed for hydroelectric power generation, and as such it is navigable for a considerable distance, second to the Amazon River only in terms of navigable length on the continent. This makes it an important shipping and trade corridor, providing a much needed link to the Atlantic Ocean for the otherwise landlocked nations of Paraguay and Bolivia. It serves such important cities as Asunción and Concepción in Paraguay and Formosa in Argentina. Photo of deepwater port on the Paraguay River, Asuncion, Paraguay File links The following pages link to this file: River Paraguay ...
Photo of deepwater port on the Paraguay River, Asuncion, Paraguay File links The following pages link to this file: River Paraguay ...
A satellite view of the estuary Another satellite view of the estuary The River Plate (Spanish: RÃo de la Plata) is the estuary formed from the combination of the Uruguay River and the Parana River. ...
Scrivener Dam, in Canberra, Australia, was engineered to withstand a once-in-5000-years flood event A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or retards the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment. ...
Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ...
The Amazon River (occasionally River Amazon; Spanish: RÃo Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) of South America is one of the two longest rivers on Earth, the other being the Nile in Africa. ...
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Concepción is a city in northern Paraguay and capital of the Concepción Department. ...
Formosa is the capital city of Formosa Department, Formosa Province, Argentina. ...
The river is also a source of commerce in the form of fishing and providing irrigation for agriculture along its route. It also serves as a way of life for a number of poor fishermen who live along its banks and make the majority of their income selling fish in local markets, as well as supplying a major source of sustenance for their families. This has created issues in large cities such as Asunción, where poverty stricken farmers from the country's interior have populated the river's banks in search of an easier lifestyle. Seasonal flooding of the river's banks forces many thousands of displaced residents to seek temporary shelter until the waters recede from their homes. The Paraguayan military has been forced to dedicate land on one of its reserves in the capital to emergency housing for these displaced citizens. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...
Controversy The Paraguay River is the primary waterway of the Pantanal Wetlands that encompass southern Brazil, northern Paraguay and parts of Bolivia. Although largely ignored by the international media in favor of more famous wetlands along the Amazon to the north, the Pantanal is actually the world's largest tropical wetlands ecosystem and is largely dependent upon waters provided by the Paraguay. Owing to its importance as a navigable waterway serving Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay it has also been the focus of commercial and industrial development in those nations.
In 1997 the governments of the nations in the River Plate basin proposed a bold plan under the Hidrovia Inter?Governmental Commission (CIH) agency to develop the rivers into an industrial waterway system to help reduce the costs of exporting goods from the area, in particular the soybean crop that the area has embraced. The plan proposed constructing more hydroelectric dams along some of the waterways, along with a massive effort to restructure the navigable waterways - most notably the Paraguay - through dredging of the waterway, rock removal, and channel restructuring. 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Studies indicated that the rechanneling of the Paraguay would have lowered the river levels by several feet and have a devastating impact on the Pantanal wetlands, but the member nations of the CIH were determined to go ahead with the plan. An effort by the Rios Vivos coalition to educate people on the effects of the project was successful in delaying the project, and the nations involved have agreed to reformulate their plan. The final plan is still uncertain, however, along with the final effect it will have on the Pantanal and the ecology of the entire River Plate basin is currently undetermined. The controversy as to whether or not the project will have a disastrous effect on the ecology, as well as the potential economic gains, continues to this day. (Ecology is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for the natural environment. ...
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