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Rio Napo (tributary to the Amazon river)


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Rio Napo (tributary to the Amazon river)

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Le Río Napo est un affluent de l'Amazone qui prend sa source en Équateur sur les flancs des volcans Antisana, Sincholagua et Cotopaxi. Depuis l'Amazone, le Napo est navigable pour des embarcations de "rivière" jusqu'au confluent avec le Río Curaray sur une distance de plus ou moins 350 km, et peut-être un peu plus loin ; mais au-delà, on peut sportivement continuer en canoë jusque Santa Rosa en Equateur. La rivière Coca son affluent peut être remontée jusqu'à l'endroit où elle est encaissée entre deux barrières rocheuses dans un canyon profond. L'Équateur et le Pérou ont signé en juin 2006 un accord pour étudier la navigabilité du Napo sur une longueur de 800 kilomètres entre Francisco de Orellana, et le confluent avec l'Amazone. Cet accord bilatéral vise à faciliter les échanges commerciaux entre le nord du Brésil et le Pérou, l'Équateur et la Colombie The Napo is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi. Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every piece of ground. From the north it is joined by the river Coca, having its sources in the gorges of Cayambe (volcano) on the equator, and also a powerful river, the Aguarico, having its headwaters between Cayambe and the Colombian frontier. From the west it receives a secondary tributary, the Curaray, from the Andean slopes, between Cotopaxi and the volcano of Tungurahua. From its Coca branch to the mouth of the Curaray the Napo is full of snags and shelving sandbanks, and throws out numerous canos among jungle-tangled islands, which in the wet season are flooded, giving the river an immense width. From the Coca to the Amazon it runs through a forested plain where not a hill is visible from the river - its uniformly level banks being only interrupted by swamps and lagoons. From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles (350 km), and perhaps a bit further; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland. The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs. This is the stream made famous by the expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro. Der Napo (Río Napo) ist ein 1.480 km langer Fluss, der an den Hängen der Vulkane Antisana, Sincholaga und Cotopaxi entsteht, durch den ecuadorianischen und peruanischen Teil des Amazonasbeckens fließt und bei Francisco de Orellana in den Amazonas mündet. Bevor der Napo die Tiefebene erreicht, fließen ihm eine Vielzahl in den Páramos der Anden entstehender und aus den Gletschern der genannten Vulkane gespeister Flüsse zu. Der obere Napo wird in diesem Bereich auch Jatunyacu (quichua für großes Wasser) genannt. Bereits im Amazonasbecken fließt der obere Napo bei Puerto Napo mit dem Fluss Anzuni zusammen und heißt ab dort Napo (bzw. unterer Napo). Ab diesem Punkt fließt der Napo nordöstlich, bis er sich mit dem linksseitigen Zufluss Coca, vereint. An diesem Punkt befindet sich Puerto Francisco de Orellana (auch El Coca genannt), die Hauptstadt der ecuadorianischen Provinz Orellana. Von hier fließt der Napo Richtung Osten und wird an der ecuadorianisch-peruanischen Grenze wiederum linksseitig durch die Wässer des Aguarico gespeist, der in den Falten des Vulkans Cayambe entspringt. Der Flussverlauf führt auf peruanischem Staatsgebiet stärker südwärts. Von rechts fließt ihm im weiteren Verlauf bei Cucuray der Curaray zu. Bei Franco de Orellana mündet der Napo in den Amazonas. Weitere, kleinere Zuflüsse des Napo sind linksseitig der Misahuallí, der Suno, der Jivino und der Río Tambo Yacu sowie rechtsseitig der Arajuno, der Tiputini und der Yasuní. Der Napo ist vom Amazonas aus bis mindestens zur Einmündung des Curucay schiffbar. Ebenfalls ist er vom Coca her schiffbar. Auf der ecuadorianischen Seite sind insbesondere der Oberlauf und zahlreiche Zuflüsse für Rafting beliebt. Der Napo wurde 1541 unter Führung von Francisco de Orellana auf der Gonzalo-Pizarro-Expedition, die unter anderem die Suche nach dem legendären Goldland Eldorado zum Ziel hatte, von Quito aus bis zum Amazonas vollständig befahren. Die umgekehrte Fahrt machte vom Amazonas ausgehend erstmals der Portugiese Pedro Texeira 1637-1639.(wikipedia) 08.1991 VALPARD FILMS http://valpardfilms.free.fr

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