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Guarapiche River is a river of north-eastern Venezuela. It flows into the San Juan River.[1]

Guarapiche River
Location
Country	Venezuela
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Puertas de Miraflores, Turimiquire Range
Mouth
• location	Caño Francés

Course

Its origin is in canyon named Puertas de Miraflores in the Turimiquire Range.[2] Together with it flows into a short body named Caño Francés whose mouth is in the San Juan River shortly before its mouth in the Gulf of Paria. In February 2012 there was an oil spill in the mangrove area at the mouth of the river.[3]

See also

• List of rivers of Venezuela

References

• Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.

External links

• Media related to Guarapiche River at Wikimedia Commons
• Map of river basin

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