Orinoco
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/30183
- Note
- "The Orinoco River (Spanish pronunciation: [oɾiˈnoko]) is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,250 kilometres (1,400 mi). Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia,[citation needed] covers 880,000 km2 (340,000 sq mi), with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The Orinoco River and its tributaries are the major transportation system for eastern and interior Venezuela and the llanos of Colombia. The environment in the Orinoco´s basin is extremely diverse; it hosts a wide variety of flora and fauna." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
- Latitude
- 8.5600004196167
- Longitude
- -60.5
- Time zone
- America/Caracas
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Rote Piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri)
Der Rote Piranha, auch...
Object information
Image: Phyllodrom – Regenwaldmuseum Leipzig - CC BY-NC-ND
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