Potaro
The Potaro River is a river in Guyana that runs from Mount Ayanganna area of the Pakaraima Mountains for approximately 255 km before flowing into the Essequibo River, Guyana's largest river. The renowned Kaieteur Falls is on the Potaro.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 15 metres (49 feet)
- …is also known as “Potaro River”
- Description: river in Guyana
Potaro
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Latitude
5.3717° or 5° 22′ 18″ north
Longitude
-58.89592° or 58° 53′ 45″ west
Open location code
68Q394C3+MJ
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Potaro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بوتارو”
- Asturian: “Ríu Potaro”
- Bulgarian: “Потаро”
- Catalan: “riu Potaro”
- Catalan: “Riu Potaro”
- Cebuano: “Potaro River”
- Chinese: “波塔罗河”
- Chinese: “波塔羅河”
- Croatian: “Potaro”
- Czech: “Potaro”
- Dutch: “Potaro River”
- Dutch: “Potaro”
- French: “Potaro”
- German: “Potaro”
- Irish: “Abhainn Potaro”
- Italian: “Potaro”
- Japanese: “ポタロ川”
- Lithuanian: “Potaras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Potaro”
- Norwegian: “Potaro”
- Portuguese: “Rio Potaro”
- Russian: “Потаро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Potaro (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Potaro”
- Spanish: “Rio Potaro”
- Spanish: “Río Potaro”
- Swedish: “Potaro River”
- Ukrainian: “Потаро”
- Venetian: “Fiume Potaro”
- Welsh: “Afon Potaro”
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