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ATRATO RIVER
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Atrato
is a river in northwestern Colombia. It rises in the
western slopes of the Western Mountain Ridge of the Andes and flows
generally northward to empty into the Gulf of Urabá of the Caribbean Sea.
The river is only 416 miles long, but its large discharge of no less than
175,000 cubic feet of water per second, transports a very large quantity
of sediment that is rapidly filling the gulf. Navigable by small boats as
far upstream as Quibdó, the lower Atrato has been considered a
feasible route for a transisthmian canal.
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