Resources Hidricos
The quite abundant, water resource in Colombia, originates of water
océanicas, water of escorrentía-of rivers and broken-, water placed in
gaps, marshes and dams, and subterranean water.
You crash Hydrographic
1. Solid Colombian or Crashes river
Colombian Cauca, Caquetá, Mary magdalene
and Patia
2. Hill of Caramanta Atrato and San Juan
3. Knot of Santurbán Algodonal, Margua,
Zulia and Tarra
4. Páramo of Sumapaz Guayabero,
Guaviare, Goal and Sumapaz
7. Knot of Paramillo Sinú and San Jorge
8. Knot of pre-colombian tomb or of the
Pastos Looks and Putumayo
5. Páramo of Guachaneque Bogota, Upía
and Sogamoso
6. Sierra Nevada of Holy Marta Ranchería,
to Cease and Foundation
Side of the Caribbean
Side of the Amazon
Among its more important rivers is found the
It is less populated. The 116 km
Mary magdalene, which continues being
resource for some economic activities,
Side of the Orinoco
especially in its low and medium part. Its
main affluent one is the river Cauca. Other
rivers of large dimensions are the Atrato, the Its main rivers are the Arauca, the Goal, the
Vichada, the Guaviare. It occupies the
Sinú and the San Jorge.
quarter part of the territory of the country.
Side of the Peaceful Ocean
Of the course of the Amazon that cross for
the country are sufficient to form a side that
Of highly humidity. Its rivers are prosperous
occupies 343.000 square km. The most
but in its navigable majority by small
important rivers are the Guainía, the Vaupés,
embarkations. The main are the Sight,
natural limit with the Equator; the Patía, with the Caquetá and Putumayo.
a length of 460 km; the San Juan of Micay,
navigable in a third part by average
embarkations, and the San Juan, rich in gold
and silver.
Water Escorrentía: Rivers, broken and
streams
Due to the abundant rains and to the relief, Colombia possesses a large
quantity of rivers, among them more than 1.200 permanent, counting
only those of basins over 100 square kilometers. According to the place
where the water of the basins arrive, in Colombia four hydrographic
sides are recognized: Caribbean, Peaceful, Orinoco and Amazon.
According to the place where are born the rivers, eight hydrographic
stars are recognized. (To See picture pág. 29)
Water Placed: Lakes, gaps, marshes and dams
Exist near 1640 lakes, gaps and reservoirs and near 1940 marshes.
Among the gaps and lakes excel The Cocha, in Nariño; Tota, in
Boyacá; Fúquene, Suesca and Guatavita, in Cundinamarca. As for
marshes, those of are emphasized Zapatosa, in Ceasing; Ayapel, in
Cordoba; San Wild in Santander and the Large Marsh of Holy Marta.
In the artificial lakes, that is to say, the reservoirs and you dam more
important, are The Muña, Neusa or Sisga, that corresponds to the
basin of the river Bogota: Chingaza in Cundinamarca and the
reservoir of Betania in the Huila. These bodies of water are important
by the diversity of benefits that lend, among them the generation of
electricity.
Water Océanicas
They correspond to the Caribbean sea and to the Peaceful Ocean and
cover 1.600 and 1.300 km of coast respectively. In the Pacific rivers
flow into more than in the Caribbean.
Subterranean water
Are water infiltrated that they enter contact with the heat of the land.
When these present high temperatures itself know like water termales.
The best-known they are those of Paipa in Boyacá, the sources of the
Snowed of the Ruíz and Holy Rose of Exact in Risaralda and some as
Tocaima, Tabio, Nilo and Choachí situated in Cundinamarca.
RIOS BUT PROSPEROUS OF THE PAIS
I laugh
Basin Km
cuadr.
Length km
Abundant m.
cub/s
Performance
liters/s/km
cuadr.
Caquetá
199.203
1.200
13.180
66
Guaviare
166.168
1.350
8.200
49
Mary
magdalene
257.438
1.543
6.987
27
Put
103.052
1.000
6.496
63
Putumayo
53.165
1.350
6.250
58
Atrato
35.702
612
4.155
116
Vaupés
37.748
660
2.650
70
San Juan
15.180
376
2.550
168
Vichada
25.235
700
2.000
79
Looks
10901
570
52
Splits
Colombian
S = second