The Pasimoni River () is a river in the state of

Amazonas, Venezuela Amazonas State (, ) is one of the 23 states into which Venezuela is divided. It covers nearly a fifth of the area of Venezuela, but has less than 1% of Venezuela's population. The state capital is Puerto Ayacucho. The capital until the early 1 ...

. It is a tributary of the

Casiquiare canal The Casiquiare river or canal () is a natural distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems. It is the ...

, in turn a tributary of the Rio Negro. The Pasimoni forms on the northern slope of the

Cerro de la Neblina Cerro de la Neblina (lit. "Mountain of the Mist"), also known as Serra da Neblina in Brazil and Sierra de la Neblina in Venezuela, is a sandstone massif located in the northern Amazon Basin. It is a tilted, heavily eroded plateau, with a deep can ...

and flows northward to

. It surrounded by low, poorly drained country. It drains a heavily forested region where the driest months are December to February, but rain is common in the dry season. It is a classic

blackwater river A blackwater river is a type of River#Classification, river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial ...

with low pH, conductivity, solute and nutrients.

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