Chicamocha River is a river of
Boyacá and
Santander in central-eastern
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
. It is part of the
Magdalena river system that flows into the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...
.
The Chicamocha River rises in the municipality of
Tuta Tuta may refer to:
Geography
* Tuta, Boyacá, a municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia
*Tuta, a village in Târgu Trotuș Commune, Bacău County, Romania
People
*Frederick Tuta (1269–1291), Margrave of Landsberg
* Mladen Naletilić Tuta (1 ...
in the
Department of
Boyacá, flows through the Department of
Santander and joins the
Suárez River
The Suárez River, originally Saravita, is a river in the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The river originates in Lake Fúquene on the border of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca and Boyacá Department, B ...
(with its tributary
Fonce River) to form the
Sogamoso River
Sogamoso River () is a river of northern Colombia. It flows into the Magdalena River and on to the Caribbean Sea. The Sogamoso Dam on the river near Bucaramanga was completed in 2014.
Course
The Sogamoso River is a river in northern Colombia, w ...
.
Chicamocha National Park
The
Chicamocha Canyon
The Chicamocha Canyon ( , ) is a steep sided canyon carved by the Chicamocha River in Colombia. With a maximum depth of , an area of and a length of , the canyon is the second-largest worldwide. The canyon is situated in the departments of Bo ...
contains the
Chicamocha National Park (PANACHI; Parque Nacional del Chicamocha), a major tourist destination in Colombia. It was preselected for the election of
New 7 Wonders of Nature
New 7 Wonders of Nature (2007–2011) was an initiative started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll. It was the second in a series of Internet-based polls led by Swiss-born Canadian Bernard Web ...
.
«El cañón del Chicamocha fue preseleccionado en el concurso de maravillas naturales del planeta»
- El Tiempo - accessed 19-04-2016
Gallery
File:Satelital alto chicamocha.jpg, Alto Chicamocha; Paipa, Duitama, Sogamoso
File:Cañón del Chicamocha 2014-09-21 (3).jpg, Course of the Chicamocha River through its canyon
File:Rio Chicamocha on PANACHI 02.JPG, Chicamocha River, Panachi
See also
* List of rivers of Colombia
Atlantic Ocean
Amazon River Basin
* Amazon River
** Guainía River or Negro River
*** Vaupés River or Uaupés River
**** Papuri River
**** Querary River
*** Isana River or Içana River
**** Cuiari River
*** Aquio River
** Caquetá Ri ...
* Chicamocha Canyon
The Chicamocha Canyon ( , ) is a steep sided canyon carved by the Chicamocha River in Colombia. With a maximum depth of , an area of and a length of , the canyon is the second-largest worldwide. The canyon is situated in the departments of Bo ...
* Guane people
The Guane people of Colombia in South America live mainly in the cities of Santander, Bucaramanga and Barichara. A population estimate made by DANE(Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística) in 2005, was that around 812 people in Sa ...
References
External links
Elections 7 new natural wonders of the world
Satellite photo of the Chicamocha Canyon, Pescadero sector
ikiMapia
*
Albesiano, Sofía y J. Orlando Rangel-Ch. 2003. La vegetación del cañón del río Chicamocha (Santander, Colombia). Caldasia, 25(1):73-99
Videos
Parque Nacional del Chicamocha
Official video Parque Nacional del Chicamocha 2009
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Rivers of Colombia
Rivers
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it ru ...
Rivers
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it ru ...
Rivers
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it ru ...