Chone River
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| Chone River (Chuni mayu) | |
| Río de Chone | |
| River | |
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Mouth of the Chone River looking east from the city of Bahía de Caráquez
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| Country | Ecuador |
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| State | Manabí Province |
| Source | |
| - elevation | 400 m (1,312 ft) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Mouth | Bahía de Caráquez |
| - location | Pacific Ocean, Ecuador |
| - elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Basin | 2,384 km2 (920 sq mi) |
| Discharge | mouth |
| - average | 53 m3/s (1,872 cu ft/s) |
The Chone River is a river of Ecuador situated in the Manabí Province.[1] In arises in the Mountains and exits into the Bahía de Caráquez (Bay of Caraquez) in the Pacific Ocean near the city of Bahía de Caráquez.
Contents
Dams
The large Esperanza Dam (Represa de Esperanza) was completed on the Chone in 1985. It does not have any hydroelectric power component, but was constructed solely for irrigation and flood control.[2]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Chone, Río de (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
References
- www.codeso.com / Map of Manabí Province
- Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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