Caroní River

The Caroní River is the second most important river of , the second in flow, and one of the longest, 952 kilometres from the Kukenan tepui through to its confluence with the Orinoco River.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Caroní Municipality and Ciudad Guayana.

Quarter
The is one of 11 municipalities that make up the Venezuelan state of . According to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 704,585. is situated 4 km south of Caroní River.

is a city in the state of in . It is constituted by Puerto Ordaz and San Félix, two originally independent tows that have sprawled and merged into one single city.

Caroní River

Latitude
8.3475° or 8° 20′ 51″ north
Longitude
-62.71861° or 62° 43′ 7″ west
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
67WV87WJ+XH
Geo­Names ID
3646489
Wiki­data ID
Q590533
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Caroní River” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Ríu Caroní
  • Belarusian: Карані
  • Catalan: Caroní
  • Catalan: Riu Caroní
  • Cebuano: Río Caroní
  • Chinese: 卡罗尼河
  • Chinese: 卡羅尼河
  • Chuvash: Карони
  • Croatian: Caroni
  • Czech: Caroní
  • Dutch: Caroní
  • Finnish: Caroní
  • French: Caroní
  • French: río Caroní
  • Georgian: კარონი
  • German: Río Caroní
  • Hebrew: נהר קארוני
  • Hebrew: קארוני
  • Igbo: Caroní River
  • Indonesian: Sungai Caroní
  • Irish: Abhainn Caroní
  • Italian: Río Caroní
  • Japanese: カロニ川
  • Korean: 카로니강
  • Latin: Caroni
  • Latvian: Karoni
  • Lithuanian: Karoni
  • Malayalam: കരോനി നദി
  • Mingrelian: კარონი
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Caroní
  • Norwegian: Caroní
  • Polish: Caroní
  • Portuguese: Rio Caroni
  • Romanian: Râul Caroní
  • Russian: Карони
  • Serbian: Карони
  • Serbo-Croatian: Caroni
  • Serbo-Croatian: Caroní
  • South Azerbaijani: کارونی چایی
  • Spanish: Río Caroní
  • Ukrainian: Кароні
  • Venetian: Fiume Caroní
  • Vietnamese: Sông Caroní
  • Welsh: Afon Caroní
  • Río Caroní

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Caroní River”. Photo: Hdezeo, CC BY-SA 3.0.