The Guayquiraró River ( Spanish, Río Guayquiraró) is a river in the Mesopotamic northeastern region of

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. It is born in the middle section of the border between the provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes, fed from several streams on its right-hand basin. It flows west along the interprovincial border for about , then emptying into the

Paraná River The Paraná River ( es, Río Paraná, links=no , pt, Rio Paraná, gn, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some ."Parana River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Br ...

, at a

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of about

AMSL Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

. The river's

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

covers an area of , and its mean annual flow is .

References

* Secretaría de Minería de la Nación
Provincia de Corrientes - Recursos hídricos
Rivers of Argentina Rivers of Corrientes Province Rivers of Entre Ríos Province Tributaries of the Paraná River {{Argentina-river-stub

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