Tercero River

	Tercero River The Tercero River ( es, Río Tercero, 'Third River'), also known as Ctalamochita, is the river in Córdoba Province of Argentina. It originates in the Sierras de Córdoba near Cerro Champaquí and Calamuchita Valley, in an area of annual precipitation of between . Leaving the valley, it reaches the plains where four dams have been constructed, called Cerro Pelado Dam, Arroyo Corto Dam, Embalse Río Tercero — with built in 1936 — and Piedras Moras, which serve as flow regulators and produce hydroelectricity. The reservoirs created by the dams are also used for tourism and recreation, including water sports and fishing. It has a water flow of , and flows before reaching the Carcarañá River. The river navigable for small- to medium-sized boats as it flows through the plains. It flows eastward into the Humid Pampas, which has an average rainfall of per year. It joins the Saladillo River (also called the Cuarto River) to form the Carcarañá River, a tributary of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Río Tercero, Córdoba Río Tercero is a city located on the center of the country, more specifically on the Tercero River in the Tercero Arriba Department of Córdoba Province (Argentina). Notable residents * Juan Fernandez, college basketball player with the Temple Owls * Gustavo Fernandez, father of Juan Fernandez and former professional basketball player Pablo Prigioni, basketball player Ivanna Madruga, tennis player that reached US Open semifinals (1980 and 1982) and Roland Garros semifinals (1980 and 1983) Oscar Galindez, word class triathlete Claudio Javier "Piojo" Lopez, soccer player * Jose Maria "Pechito" Lopez, race car driver Marcelo Milanesio, basketball player See also Río Tercero explosion The Río Tercero explosion was a series of explosions in Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina, that happened on 3 November 1995 at Río Tercero Military Factory, an ammunition factory, during Carlos Menem's presidency. The explosion killed seven peop ... References External links * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rivers Of Argentina This is a list of rivers of Argentina. Longest Rivers By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers in the table above are in bold. La Plata Basin * Río de la Plata Uruguay River * Gualeguaychú River * Mocoretá River * Miriñay River * Aguapey River * Pepiri-Guazu River Paraná River * Arrecifes River * Gualeguay River * Nogoyá River * Arroyo del Medio * Saladillo Stream * Ludueña Stream * Carcarañá River ** Tercero River (Calamuchita River) Cuarto River (Saladillo River, Chocancharava River) * Salado River (Salado del Norte, Juramento River, Pasaje River, Calchaquí River) ** Horcones River * Urueña River Arenales River Rosario River Guasamayo River * San Javier River * Feliciano River * Guayquiraró River * Corriente River * Paraná Miní River ** Tapenagá River Palometa River * Santa Lucía ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	GEOnet Names Server The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data or geonames in domain and email addresses, is a service that provides access to the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the US Board on Geographic Names's (BGN) database of geographic feature names and locations for locations outside the US. The database is the official repository for the US Federal Government on foreign place-name decisions approved by the BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. Names are not deleted from the database, "except in cases of obvious duplication". The database contains search aids such as spelling variations and non-Roman script spellings in addition to its primary information about location, administrative division, and quality. The accuracy of the database had been criticised. Accuracy A 2008 survey of South Korea toponyms on GNS found that roughly 1% of them were actually Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Rivers Of Argentina This is a list of rivers of Argentina. Longest Rivers By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers in the table above are in bold. La Plata Basin * Río de la Plata Uruguay River * Gualeguaychú River * Mocoretá River * Miriñay River * Aguapey River * Pepiri-Guazu River Paraná River * Arrecifes River * Gualeguay River * Nogoyá River * Arroyo del Medio * Saladillo Stream * Ludueña Stream * Carcarañá River ** Tercero River (Calamuchita River) Cuarto River (Saladillo River, Chocancharava River) * Salado River (Salado del Norte, Juramento River, Pasaje River, Calchaquí River) ** Horcones River * Urueña River Arenales River Rosario River Guasamayo River * San Javier River * Feliciano River * Guayquiraró River * Corriente River * Paraná Miní River ** Tapenagá River Palometa River * Santa Lucía ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Río De La Plata Basin The Río de la Plata basin ( es, Cuenca del Plata, pt, Bacia do Prata), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings, sometimes called the Platine basin or Platine region, is the hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata. It includes areas of southeastern Bolivia, southern and central Brazil, the entire country of Paraguay, most of Uruguay, and northern Argentina. Making up about one fourth of the continent's surface, it is the second largest drainage basin in South America (after the Amazon basin) and one of the largest in the world. The main rivers of the La Plata basin are the Paraná River, the Paraguay River (the Paraná's main tributary), and the Uruguay River. Geography The La Plata basin is bounded by the Brazilian Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, and Patagonia to the south. The watershed extends mostly northward from the source of the Río de la Plata for roughly , as far as Brasília and Cuiabá i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Córdoba, Argentina Córdoba () is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Punilla Valley, Sierras Chicas on the Primero River, Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province and the List of cities in Argentina by population, second most populous city in Argentina after Buenos Aires, with about 1.3 million inhabitants according to the 2010 census. It was founded on 6 July 1573 by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, who named it after Córdoba, Spain. It was one of the early Spanish colonial capitals of the region that is now Argentina (the oldest city is Santiago del Estero, founded in 1553). The National University of Córdoba is the oldest university of the country. It was founded in 1613 by the Society of Jesus, Jesuit Order. Because of this, Córdoba earned the nickname ''La Docta'' ("the learned"). Córdoba has many historical monuments preserved from Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonial rule, espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are, but many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. While some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions, the Indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies, and empires. Some had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by Indigenous peoples; some countries have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bell Ville Bell Ville is a city in center-south of the provinces of Argentina, province of Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Argentina, located 200 km southeast from the capital Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba City, on the intersection of National Route 9 (Argentina), National Route 9 and Provincial Route 3 with the Córdoba–Rosario–Buenos Aires railroad. Besides primary activities like agriculture (soybeans, wheat, sunflowers, maize) and cattle farming, and secondary ones (elaborated products of the aforementioned), Bell Ville has a peculiar local industry: the manufacturing of football (association football), footballs. The city prides itself in being the "National Capital of the Football". History The origin of Bell Ville's current city is located in 1630 when the couple constituted by Lorenzo de Lara and Mimenza and Marcela of Mendoza created the so-called stay "Our Lady of the Pure and Clean Concepcion", though the place already was known as Dead Friar because be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Villa Nueva, Córdoba Villa Nueva is a town located in the General San Martín Department in the Province of Córdoba in central Argentina. References {{Authority control Populated places in Córdoba Province, Argentina Populated places established in 1826 1826 establishments in Argentina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]