The Tampaón River, also known as the Tamuin River, is a river in northeastern Mexico. It is a principal tributary of the
Pánuco River, draining portions of
San Luis Potosí Guanajuato
Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato, is one of the 32 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guanajuato, 46 municipalities and its cap ...
,
Querétaro
Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Querétaro, 18 municipalities. Its capital city is Querétaro Cit ...
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Veracruz
Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entit ...
states.
It is formed by the confluence of the
Santa Maria River and the
Rio Verde, which originate on the
Mexican Plateau and flow through canyons in the
Sierra Madre Oriental. The rivers join in the Sierra to form the Tampaón and it continues east, emerging onto the
Gulf Coastal Plain
The Gulf Coastal Plain extends around the Gulf of Mexico in the Southern United States and eastern Mexico.
This coastal plain reaches from the Florida Panhandle, southwest Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, the southern two-thirds of Alabama, over m ...
, where it is joined by tributaries that drain the wetter eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre. It winds eastwards to join the
Moctezuma River and form the
Pánuco River in Veracruz state.
[Hudson, Paul F. (2000) "Discharge, Sediment, and Channel Characteristics of the Río Panuco, Mexico". ''Yearbook (Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers), 2000'', Vol. 26 (2000), University of Texas Press, pp. 61-70]
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The eastern slopes of the Sierra are formed mostly of porous limestone, and the dissolved limestone gives the river a jade-green color.[
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Tributaries of the Pánuco River
Rivers of Querétaro
Rivers of San Luis Potosí
Rivers of Veracruz