Orinoco River
The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers approximately 1,000,000 km/s at delta) due to the high precipitation throughout its catchment area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in South America
- Also known as: “Orinoco”
Orinoco River
- Categories: river, main stem, and body of water
- Location: Delta Amacuro, Guayana, Venezuela, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Orinoco River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Río Orinoco”
- Albanian: “Orinoko”
- Arabic: “أورينوكو”
- Arabic: “نهر أورينوكو”
- Aragonese: “Orinoco”
- Aragonese: “Río Orinoco”
- Armenian: “Օրինոկո”
- Asturian: “Ríu Orinoco”
- Azerbaijani: “Orinoko çayı”
- Bashkir: “Ориноко”
- Basque: “Orinoco”
- Basque: “Orinoko”
- Belarusian: “Арынока”
- Bengali: “অরিনোকো নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “ओरिनिको नदी”
- Bosnian: “Orinoco”
- Breton: “Orinoco”
- Breton: “Orinoko”
- Bulgarian: “Ориноко”
- Burmese: “အော်ရင်းနိုးကိုးမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Orinoco”
- Catalan: “Riu Orinoco”
- Cebuano: “Río Orinoco”
- Chinese: “Orinoco Hô”
- Chinese: “奥里诺科河”
- Chinese: “奧利諾科河”
- Chinese: “奧里諾科河”
- Chinese: “奧里諾高河”
- Chuvash: “Ориноко”
- Croatian: “Orinoco”
- Czech: “Orinoco”
- Czech: “Orinoko”
- Danish: “Orinoco”
- Dutch: “Orinoco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اورينوكو”
- Esperanto: “Orinoko”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Orinoko”
- Estonian: “Orinoco”
- Fiji Hindi: “Orinoco”
- Finnish: “Orinoco”
- French: “L’Orénoque”
- French: “Orenoque”
- French: “Orénoque”
- Galician: “Orinoco”
- Galician: “Río Orinoco”
- Georgian: “ორინოკო”
- German: “Orinoco”
- German: “Orinoko”
- German: “Rio Orinoco”
- German: “Río Orinoco”
- Greek: “Ορενόκος”
- Greek: “Ορινόκο”
- Greek: “Ορινόκος”
- Hebrew: “אורינוקו”
- Hindi: “ओरिनोको नदी”
- Hindi: “ओरिनोको”
- Hindi: “ओरीनिको नदी”
- Hindi: “ओरीनिको”
- Hungarian: “Orinoco”
- Icelandic: “Órinókó-fljót”
- Ido: “Fluvio Orinoco”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Orinoko”
- Irish: “an Oranócó”
- Irish: “An Oranócó”
- Italian: “Orenoco”
- Italian: “Orinoco”
- Italian: “Rio Orinoco”
- Japanese: “オリノコ川”
- Japanese: “オリノコ水系”
- Kazakh: “Ориноко”
- Kirghiz: “Ориноко”
- Korean: “오리노코강”
- Latin: “Orinocum”
- Latvian: “Orinoko”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Orinoco”
- Lithuanian: “Orinokas”
- Lombard: “Orinoco”
- Macedonian: “Ориноко”
- Malagasy: “Orinoco”
- Malay: “Sungai Orinoco”
- Malayalam: “ഒറിനോക്കോ നദി”
- Marathi: “ओरिनोको नदी”
- Mazanderani: “اورینوکو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orinoco Hô”
- Mingrelian: “ორინოკო”
- Mongolian: “Ориноко гол”
- Northern Frisian: “Orinoco”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orinoco-elva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orinoco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orinoco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orinoquia”
- Norwegian: “Orinoco”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Orinoco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Orinoco”
- Ossetian: “Ориноко”
- Papiamento: “Orinoco”
- Persian: “رود اورینوکو”
- Persian: “رودخانه اورینوکو”
- Persian: “رودخانهٔ اورینوکو”
- Polish: “Orinoko”
- Portuguese: “Bacia do Orinoco”
- Portuguese: “Bacia do rio Orinoco”
- Portuguese: “Orenoco”
- Portuguese: “Orinoco”
- Portuguese: “Rio Orinoco”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Orinoco”
- Romanian: “Orinoco”
- Romanian: “Râul Orinoco”
- Russian: “Ориноко”
- Saterfriesisch: “Orinoko”
- Scots: “Orinoco”
- Serbian: “Orinoko reka”
- Serbian: “Orinoko”
- Serbian: “Ориноко река”
- Serbian: “Ориноко”
- Serbian: “Река Ориноко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orinoco”
- Slovak: “Orinoko”
- Slovenian: “Orinoko”
- South Azerbaijani: “اورینوکو چایی”
- Spanish: “Orinoco”
- Spanish: “Río Orinoco”
- Swahili: “Orinoco”
- Swedish: “Orinoco”
- Swedish: “Orinocofloden”
- Swedish: “Orinokofloden”
- Swiss German: “Orinoco”
- Tagalog: “Ilog ng Orinoco”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Orinoco”
- Tagalog: “Orinoco”
- Tagalog: “Orinokiya”
- Tagalog: “Orinoko”
- Tagalog: “Orinokya”
- Tagalog: “Orinoquia”
- Tamil: “ஓரினோகோ”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโอริโนโก”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโอรีโนโก”
- Tibetan: “ཨོ་ལི་ནོ་ཁི་གཙང་པོ།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Orinoco”
- Turkish: “Orinoco Nehri”
- Turkish: “Orinoco”
- Turkish: “Orinoko nehri”
- Turkish: “Orinoko”
- Ukrainian: “Ориноко”
- Uzbek: “Orinoko”
- Venetian: “Fiume Orinoco”
- Vietnamese: “Orinoco”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Orinoco”
- Waray (Philippines): “Orinoco”
- Welsh: “Afon Orinoco”
- Welsh: “Orinoco”
- Western Frisian: “Orinoco”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے اورینوکو”
- Wu Chinese: “奥里诺科河”
- Yue Chinese: “奧里諾高河”
- “Río Orinoco”
- “ओरिनिको नदी”
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