The Huaynamota River is a river in western

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. It is a tributary of the

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in the southern

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Geography

The Huaynamota drains a basin of 17,265 km², which covers parts of the states of

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Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

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, and

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. The basin extends from 21° 24’ 36.82” to 23° 25’ 3.26” N and 104° 30’ 34.03” to 103° 24’ 26.73” W. The basin is mountainous, ranging in elevation from 216 to 3,148 meters.Alvarado-Hernández, Leticia & Ibáñez-Castillo, Laura & Ruiz Garcia, Agustin & González-Leiva, Fernando & Peña, Vázquez Mario. (2020). "Hourly Streamflow Forecasting for the Huaynamota River, Nayarit, Mexico, Using the Discrete Kalman Filter. ''Agrociencia''. 54. 295-312. The basin is bounded on the east by the

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, which separates it from the

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basin. The Sierra de Valparaiso bounds it on the north. The basin of the

San Pedro Mezquital River The San Pedro Mezquital River ( es, Río San Pedro Mezquital) is a river of Nayarit, Mexico. The river originates in the Sierra Madre Occidental, and flows through Durango and Nayarit states to empty into the Pacific Ocean in Marismas Nacionale ...

bounds it on the west and northwest. The Sierra Alicia bounds it on the south. The main tributaries of the Huaynamota are the Jesús María River, which flows from the north, and

Atengo River The Atengo River, also known as the Chapalagana River, is a river of Mexico. It is a tributary of the Huaynamota River in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental.Alvarado-Hernández, Leticia & Ibáñez-Castillo, Laura & Ruiz Garcia, Agustin & Gonzál ...

, also known as the Chapalagana, which joins from the east. The basin of the Jesús María covers 5,185 km². The Atengo River drains a basin of 12,080 km². The Atengo's main tributaries are the Huajimic, which joins the Atengo from the south and drains the east slope of the Sierra Alicia and west slope of the Sierra Pajaritos, and the Camotlán, which drains the east slope of the Sierra Pajaritos and the southwestern Sierra los Huicholes. The Huaynamota empties into Aguamilpa Reservoir, created by construction of the Aguamilpa Dam on the Río Grande de Santiago 25 km below its former confluence with the Huaynamota.

Climate

The basin has an average annual rainfall of 600 mm, which mostly falls during the June-to-October summer wet season.

People

The

Huichol The Huichol or Wixárika are an indigenous people of Mexico and the United States living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, as well as in the United States in the states of California, ...

people live in the southeastern basin, in the valleys of the Atengo/Chapalagana and Camotlán. The Cora people live in the western basin, including the valley of the Jesús María River.

References

*Atlas of Mexico, 1975 (https://www.webcitation.org/689BebJNR?url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_mexico/river_basins.jpg). *The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984. *Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. Rivers of Mexico Rivers of Nayarit Rivers of Jalisco Rivers of Durango Rivers of Zacatecas Rivers of the Sierra Madre Occidental Río Grande de Santiago {{Mexico-river-stub

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