| Caparo River | |
|---|---|
 Reservoir la Vueltosa and Rio Caparo | |
| Location | |
| Country | Venezuela |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
⁃ location | 7°46′55″N71°27′07″W / 7.782°N 71.452°W |
Caparo River (Spanish : Río Caparo) is a river of Venezuela. It is part of the Orinoco River basin and a tributary of the Sioca River, itself a tributary of the Apure River.
The Orinoco River is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 kilometres (1,330 mi). Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers 880,000 km2 (340,000 sq mi), with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the third largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The Orinoco River and its tributaries are the major transportation system for eastern and interior Venezuela and the llanos of Colombia. The environment in the Orinoco's basin is extremely diverse; it hosts a wide variety of flora and fauna.
The Rio Negro or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River, the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.
The Bolivarian State of Mérida, commonly known simply as Mérida State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Mérida, in the Libertador Municipality.
A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. As vegetation decays, tannins leach into the water, making a transparent, acidic water that is darkly stained, resembling tea. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial studies, geology, geography, ecology, and biology. Not all dark rivers are blackwater in that technical sense. Some rivers in temperate regions, which drain or flow through areas of dark black loam, are simply black due to the color of the soil; these rivers are black mud rivers. There are also black mud estuaries.
The Apure River is a river of southwestern Venezuela, formed by the confluence of the Sarare and Uribante near Guasdualito, in Venezuela, at 7°15′N70°40′W, and flowing across the llanos into the Orinoco. It provides significant transportation in the area.
The Meta River is a major left tributary of the Orinoco River in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, South America. The Meta originates in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes and flows through the Meta Department, Colombia as the confluence of the Humea, Guatiquía and Guayuriba rivers. It flows east-northeastward across the Llanos Orientales of Colombia following the direction of the Meta Fault. The Meta forms the northern boundary of Vichada Department, first with Casanare Department, then with Arauca Department, and finally with Venezuela, down to Puerto Carreño where it flows into the Orinoco.
Caparo Vehicle Technologies (CVT), formerly known as Freestream, was a British company that provided advanced technology development, materials engineering, and design services to automotive, motorsport and aerospace markets. The company was founded under the name Freestream by Graham Halstead and Ben Scott-Geddes, former engineers that worked on the McLaren F1 project. In April 2006, under the guidance and lead from financier, Sean Butcher the company was acquired by Caparo, and renamed Caparo Vehicle Technologies. The company went into administration in 2015 and was then liquidated and fully dissolved by 2019 Caparo Vehicle Technologies produced a sports car called the T1.
Platystrophia is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived from the Ordovician to the Silurian in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. It has a prominent sulcus and fold. It usually lived in marine lime mud and sands.
The Padre Noguera Municipality is one of the 23 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 3,028. The town of Santa María de Caparo is the shire town of the Padre Noguera Municipality.
Pregonero is a town in Táchira State, Venezuela. It is the administrative centre for Uribante Municipality. Pregonero is located high in the Andes Mountains at an elevation of 1,327 m. on the banks of the Uribante River.
The Portuguesa River is a river of Venezuela. It is part of the Orinoco River basin, and is a tributary of the Apure River.
The Sierra Nevada National Park (PNSN) is an important National Park of Venezuela located between Mérida and Barinas states in the west of the country. It was created on May 2, 1952, by decree of President Germán Suárez Flamerich, in order to protect the Sierra Nevada de Mérida in the Andes.
Uonquén Airport is an airport serving Uonquén, a village in the Bolívar state of Venezuela. The well-marked grass runway is adjacent to the village.
Caparo may refer to:
The Caparo River is a river which drains into the Gulf of Paria on the west coast of Trinidad. It flows through the town of Chaguanas.
The Tapo-Caparo National Park Also National Park Tapo Caparo Is a protected area with the national park status in Venezuela, which covers an area estimated at 2,050 square kilometers and is administratively located between the states of Barinas, Mérida and Táchira, to the west of Venezuelan territory. National park was decreed The 14 of January 1992 in the government of the then president Carlos Andrés Pérez.
The General Juan Pablo Peñaloza National Park Also Páramos Batallón y La Negra National Park Is a national park of Venezuela that is formed by several páramos: Among them Batallón and La Negra, which are an important source of water supply. It is located between the states Mérida and Táchira, northwest of the Táchira depression in the Páramos de El Batallón and La Negra in Venezuela.
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