Orinoco in a sentence

However during the Orinoco's flood stage, that single, simply defined "origin of the canal" is turned into a region, and an entire strip along the southern bank of the Orinoco River.

This passageway allows vessels with shallow drafts to navigate from the lower Orinoco to the Amazon River system after unloading and reloading on either side of two falls on the Orinoco along the Colombian border.

The 1899 arbitration hearing focused on the Schomburgk Line and the occupation and control of the territory stretching from east of the Orinoco to west of the Essequibo Rivers.

Heavy crude is typically classified as 10-22 API, making the Guyana finds only slightly better quality than the extra-heavy crude from Venezuela’s Orinoco belt and the tar sands from Canada’s Alberta province.

Upriver are the majestic Mavecure hills, and downriver the Orinoco.

An example of this is the popular Merey blend (Orinoco bitumen and Mesa crude oil).

Around 1000 B.C., the ceramic -using and agriculturalist Saladoid people came to the islands, migrating up the archipelago from the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.

Colombia has four main drainage systems: the Pacific drain, the Caribbean drain, the Orinoco Basin and the Amazon Basin.

Historians are uncertain whether the river he descended was the Amazon or the Orinoco River, which runs more or less parallel to the Amazon further north.

In the north, the Guiana Highlands form a major drainage divide, separating rivers that flow south into the Amazon Basin from rivers that empty into the Orinoco River system, in Venezuela, to the north.

Paleography Hydrography The Orinoco is by far the most important of the more than 1,000 rivers in the country.

Stark's Guide-Book and History of Trinidad including Tobago, Granada, and St. Vincent; also a trip up the Orinoco and a description of the great Venezuelan Pitch Lake.

The activation of the projected areas: Central Naval Area (HQ: Puerto Cabello), Atlantic (HQ: Güiria) and South (HQ: Caicara Orinoco) is currently in the planning stages.

The Casiquiare canal connects the upper Orinoco, convert below the mission of Esmeraldas, with the Rio Negro affluent of the Amazon River near the town of San Carlos.

The critical and commercial success of Watermark (1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by its international top ten hit single, " Orinoco Flow ".

The Igneri tribe migrated to Puerto Rico between 120 and 400 AD from the region of the Orinoco river in northern South America.

The islands were then repopulated by successive waves of invaders travelling south to north from initial bases in the Orinoco River valley.

The northern part, called "Los Llanos " is a savanna region, mostly in the Orinoco basin (therefore called also Orinoquía).

The Orinoco and Amazon Rivers mark limits with Colombia to Venezuela and Peru respectively.

They were a peace-loving pro-religious people who migrated up the same path from the Orinoco.