Elqui River
The 883rd longest river in the world
The Elqui River starts in the west Andes and flows into the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean city of La Serena. It flows through a wine and pisco producing area. Vicuña, the main town of the middle valley, was the home of Nobel Laureate poet Gabriela Mistral. The invasive plant species Limnobium laevigatum is present in the river which is its northernmost locale in Chile.
Flows through: Chile.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.