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Escalante River (Venezuela)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Escalante River (Rio Escalante) is a river of Venezuela. It drains into Lake Maracaibo. The river rises in the Venezuelan Andes. It then flows through the Maracaibo dry forests ecoregion before emptying into Lake Maracaibo.

Flows through: Venezuela.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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