San_Juan_River_(Colombia)

San Juan River (Colombia)

San Juan River (Colombia)

River in Chocó Department, Colombia


The San Juan River (Spanish: Río San Juan) is a Colombian river that flows into the Pacific Ocean through the Chocó Department. It is approximately 380 kilometres (240 mi) and drains a watershed of 16,000 square kilometres (6,200 sq mi). The river drains into a large delta that covers nearly 300 square kilometres (120 sq mi). The average discharge of the Rio San Juan is 2,054.67 m3/s.

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Geography

The river begins on Cerro Caramanta in the West Andes. The delta is due north of Bahía Málaga and Buenaventura.

The mouth of the river has extensive stands of mangroves, part of the Esmeraldas-Pacific Colombia mangroves ecoregion.[1]

Hydrometry

Monthly average flow of San Juan River ( m³/second) measured at Penitas station
Data from 25 years[2]

Fauna

Reptiles

A species of snake, Dipsas sanctijoannis, is named after the San Juan River of Colombia, and is native to the watershed.[3]

Fish

See also


References

  1. Carlos Borda, Northern South America: Northern Colombia, WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature, retrieved 2017-06-19
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("St. John", p. 254).
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Andinoacara biseriatus" in FishBase. May 2017 version.

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