The Salado River (in Spanish Río Salado, literally "Salty River") is a river that crosses several provinces of Argentina, flowing 1,500 kilometres from its source in the Salta Province to end in the Paraná River, in the Santa Fe Province. Because its origin, its flow varies widely within the year, and it can dry out in some parts of its path during the winter. The only important tributary to the river is the Horcones River, which is born in Salta as Cajón River, and joins the Salado in the Santiago del Estero Province. The Murray River in Australia. ... Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (Capital Federal *). Capital Federal * Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer, symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. ... Overlooking the Paraná River from Encarnación, Paraguay. ... Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ... Map of Argentina highlighting Santiago del Estero province Flag of Santiago del Estero Province Santiago del Estero is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ...

Higher Salado

The Salado is born under the name of Juramento River at the Andes range, from thaw and captured precipitations of the 6,500 metre high Acay and Cachi mountains in the Salta Province, near Catamarca Province. The Cabra Corral Dam regulates its flow, and deviates some of it for irrigation. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The metre, or meter, is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International dUnités). ... Map of Argentina highlighting the province Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. ... Scrivener Dam, 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. ... Irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ...

Santiago del Estero

The river then enters the Santiago del Estero Province from the north, near the border with the Tucumán Province, receiving the name of Salado. The Salado and the Dulce River ("Sweet River") south to it, run diagonally in direction south-east, and are the most important rivers to cross the arid lands of Santiago del Estero, being the economic and demographic axis of the province. Map of Argentina highlighting Santiago del Estero province Flag of Santiago del Estero Province Santiago del Estero is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ... Map of Argentina highlighting the province Tucumán is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. ... Río Dulce (Sweet River) is a river in Guatemala. ...

The flow of the river is regulated in the Figueroa Department by the Los Figueroa Reservoir, and by a Derivation Dam (Dique Derivador) that re-routes part of its waters to irrigation canals of up to 200 kilometres in length. Further downstream, the river does not have a steady riverbed, what produces swamps, where due to the low quantity of water might stop the flow during the winter. The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. ...

Lower Salado

After a course of 800 kilometres inside Santiago del Estero, the river reaches the Santa Fe Province as Salado del Norte ("Northern Salty") to finally join the Paraná River in that province, being the last important tributary to the Paraná. Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ... Overlooking the Paraná River from Encarnación, Paraguay. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ...

During rainy summers, the river can overflow its riverbed producing floods; the last important one, on April 23, 2003, severely affected the city of Santa Fe. Look up Flood on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Santa Fe, is a city in northeastern Argentina, It is the capital of the Santa Fe Province, near the junction of the Parana and Salado rivers, opposite the city of Parana, to which Santa Fe is linked by a sub-fluvial tunnel inaugurated in 1973. ...

Other Argentine rivers called Salado

There are other, less important Salado rivers in Argentina, the most important of them being:

• In Buenos Aires Province, the Río Salado starts at the El Chañar lagoon and runs shoutheast some 600 kilometres to the Samborombón Bay.
• In Mendoza Province, San Luis Province and La Pampa Province, the Desaguadero-Salado runs down to the Colorado River.
• In Catamarca Province and La Rioja Province, the local Colorado river is also refered to as Salado river.

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External links

• Salado River at Monografias.com (Spanish)
• Rio Salado: INTA's Planification (Spanish)
• Political History of the Salado (Spanish)