The Takutu River (Takatu River, Tacutu River) is a river in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana and Roraima in Brazil. It forms part of the boundary between the two countries.
What is the name of the bridge that connects Guyana to Brazil?
The Takutu River Bridge
The Takutu River Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte do Rio Tacutu) is a bridge across the Takutu River, linking Lethem in Guyana to Bonfim in Brazil.
What are Guyana three main rivers?
Guyana’s four main rivers—the Courantyne, Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo—all flow from the south and empty into the Atlantic along the eastern section of the coast.
What is the name of the river that borders Guyana and Venezuela?
Just outside Etheringbang, a tiny Guyanese outpost in the jungle on the Venezuelan border, the Cuyuní river that separates Guyana from Venezuela winds through banks thick with undergrowth.
What is the name of the river in Guyana?
The Essequibo River (Spanish: Río Esequibo originally called by Alonso de Ojeda Río Dulce) is the largest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon.
Essequibo River.
Essequibo River Río Esequibo | |
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Basin size | 156,828 km2 (60,552 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean, Guyana (near mouth) |
What is the name of the river that goes across Brazil?
The Amazon River
The Amazon River is located in the northern portion of South America, flowing from west to east. The river system originates in the Andes Mountains of Peru and travels through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
Which river separates Guyana from Suriname?
Courantyne River
Courantyne River, Dutch Corantijn, also spelled (in Guyana) Corentyne, or (in Suriname) Coeroeni, river in northern South America, rising in the Akarai Mountains and flowing generally northward for 450 miles (700 km) to the Atlantic Ocean near Nieuw Nickerie, Suriname. It divides Suriname and Guyana.
What are the 3 famous rivers?
Here are some of the world’s most famous rivers:
- The Nile River. The longest river in the world is the Nile River in North and East Africa.
- The Amazon river.
- The Yangtze river.
- The Ganges river.
- The Mississippi River.
- The Danube River.
- The River Thames.
- The Congo River.
What is Guyana famous for?
Not only is Guyana a South American country of cowboys, rich wildlife, waterfalls, tepuis and flooded savannahs (in the Amazon Basin) but also a Caribbean country of great rum, cricket and music.
Is Guyana a rich country?
The economy of Guyana is one of the fastest growing in the world with a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 19.9% in 2021.
Economy of Guyana.
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GDP per capita rank | 59th (nominal, 2022) 49th (PPP, 2022) |
GDP by sector | agriculture: 15.4% industry: 15.3% services: 69.3% (2017 est.) |
Which mountain separates Guyana from Brazil?
Pacaraima Mountains
The Pacaraima or Pakaraima Mountains (Portuguese: Serra de Pacaraima, Spanish: Sierra de Pacaraima) are a mountain range primarily in southwestern Guyana, and into northern Brazil and eastern Venezuela.
Guyana is a country on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bordered by Venezuela in west, by Brazil in south west and south, by Suriname in east, and by the North Atlantic Ocean in north east.
Which river in Guyana is the deepest?
Pomeroon River
The Pomeroon River is also one of the deepest rivers in Guyana.
Pomeroon River | |
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Country | Guyana |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | Atlantic Ocean |
• coordinates | 7°37′N 58°45′W |
How many rivers Guyana have?
four major
Guyana has four major rivers—the Courantyne, Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo—which flow northward and empty into the Atlantic.
What’s the deepest river in the world?
The Congo
The Congo is the deepest river in the world. Its headwaters are in the north-east of Zambia, between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa (Malawi), 1760 metres above sea level; it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the name of the smallest river in Guyana?
Originating in the thick central rainforests of Guyana, the Demerara River flows over 340 kilometres north before it spills into the Atlantic Ocean. This is the smallest of Guyana’s main river systems, and it is one of the busiest as it is used to transport goods to Georgetown from abroad and to Linden upstream.
What are the 2 main rivers in Brazil?
Brazil is drained by the Amazon River, which is the centrepiece of the most extensive river system in the world, and by other systems that are notable in their own right—the Tocantins-Araguaia in the north, the Paraguay-Paraná-Plata in the south, and the São Francisco in the east and northeast.
What is the only major river to cross the Equator twice?
the Congo River
Measured along with the Lualaba, the main tributary, the Congo River has a total length of 4,370 km (2,715 mi). It is the only major river to cross the Equator twice. The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi), or 13% of the entire African landmass.
What are the 3 main rivers in Brazil?
These river basins are :
- Amazon Basin : Amazon collects its headwaters from the eastern slopes of Andres Mountains in Peru.
- Paraguay-Parana System : These two rivers are located in the southwestern part of Brazil.
- Sao Francisco : It is the third important river of Brazil.
Can you name this river which separates the two countries?
C) The Ravi River separates India and Pakistan. It is one of the Indus River’s five tributaries. It rises in Himachal Pradesh, in the Himalayas.
Which river in Guyana has two bridges?
Demerara River | |
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Crossing the Demerara River via the Demerara Harbour Bridge | |
Location of mouth | |
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Country | Guyana |