Rancheria River (other)
Rancheria River may refer to: * Ranchería River, a river in the department of La Guajira, Colombia * Rancheria River (Yukon), a river in the Yukon Territory, Canada ** Little Rancheria River, a tributary of Canada's Rancheria River See also * Rancheria Creek (other) * Rancheria (other) A Ranchería is a small rural settlement Rancharia, Rancheria, Ranchería or Rancherío may also refer to: Communities * Rancharia, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil * Rancheria, a locality in Canada's Yukon territory * Colusa Rancheria, Ca ...

Ranchería River
The Ranchería River ( es, Río Ranchería) is a river located in northern La Guajira Department, Colombia. Born in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta southern steps flows south, abruptly turns northeast and then north where it finally flows into the Caribbean Sea. It is the main river of La Guajira Department and has great significance for the Wayuu people. A large dam, the "El Cercado", was first proposed in the 1950s in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, as an irrigation source for agribusiness and for the population of at least nine municipalities. The Sierra Nevada Indigenous communities protested the dam, which they regarded as a systematic appropriation of the river by landowners and the coal mining industry (the world's largest open-pit coalmine, Cerrejón, is allowed around 16% of the river's volumetric flow). It was completed in the mid 2000s (picture) The river flows down to a region of water scarcity in the semi-desert lowlands to the north and west. Four water ...
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Rancheria River (Yukon)
The Rancheria River is a tributary of the Liard River in the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, just north of the border with British Columbia. The river's main tributary is the Little Rancheria River, which begins in British Columbia. Both river basins are in the northernmost of extension of the Stikine Ranges of the Cassiar Mountains, which extend from the Finlay River The Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and thence south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W.A. ... north to the Liard and end just inside the Yukon, with the Rancheria River forming the northern end of the range. See also * List of rivers of Yukon * Rancheria * Rancherie ReferencesCanada GeoNames Database entry* Rivers of Yukon Tributaries of the Liard River {{Yukon-river-stub ...
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Little Rancheria River
The Little Rancheria River is a tributary of the Rancheria River having its origin in the northernmost Stikine Ranges of British Columbia, Canada, and joining its parent stream in the Yukon Territory. The Rancheria is a tributary of the Liard and defines the northern limit of the Stikine Ranges and their parent range, the Cassiar Mountains. The river crosses the provincial-territorial boundary at 129° 48' 00" W. See also *List of rivers of British Columbia *List of rivers of Yukon This is a list of rivers of Yukon. Arctic Ocean watershed * Mackenzie River watershed **Upper Liard River *** Rancheria River ****Little Rancheria River ***Frances River ***Hyland River *** Coal River *** La Biche River *** Beaver River (Liard R ... ReferencesCanada GeoNames Database entry (YT)
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Rancheria Creek (other)
Rancheria Creek may refer to: *Rancheria Creek (Tuolumne County, California), a stream in California *Rancheria Creek (Big Butte Creek tributary), a stream in Oregon See also * Rancheria River (other) * Rancheria (other) A Ranchería is a small rural settlement Rancharia, Rancheria, Ranchería or Rancherío may also refer to: Communities * Rancharia, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil * Rancheria, a locality in Canada's Yukon territory * Colusa Rancheria, Ca ...