The Tunuyán River is a river in the

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of Mendoza. It is born in Mount Tupungato, in the

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range, and flows initially to the northeast, passing by the city of

Tunuyán Tunuyán is a city in the west of the province of Mendoza, Argentina, located on the western shore of the Tunuyán River, south from the provincial capital Mendoza and east of the Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a cou ...

. It is then

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med by the

El Carrizal Dam The El Carrizal Dam (in Spanish, ''Embalse El Carrizal'') is a dam on the upper-middle course of the Tunuyán River, in the center-north of the province of Mendoza, Argentina upstream from the city of Rivadavia. Its reservoir measures about , an ...

, after which it turns east-southeast passing near the cities of Rivadavia,

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and

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. Finally, it branches into the Tunuyán Nuevo (north) and Tunuyán Viejo (south), and empties into the Desaguadero River. It is a popular river for white

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rafters, as it boasts class III rapids.

References

Geografía de Mendoza
Rivers of Argentina Rivers of Mendoza Province {{Argentina-river-stub