Editing Morona River

{{Short description|River in Ecuador and Peru}}
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| name               = Morona River
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| subdivision_name1  = {{hlist|[[Ecuador]]|[[Peru]]}}
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| length_km = 663.91
| length_ref = <ref name="Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022">{{cite book|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1877/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022|year=2022}}</ref>
{{cvt|550|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref name=fao>{{cite book |last1=Ziesler |first1=R. |last2=Ardizzone |first2=G.D. |title=The Inland waters of Latin America |year=1979 |url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ad770b/AD770B05.htm |publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization|Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations]] |isbn=92-5-000780-9 |chapter=Amazon River System |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108152358/http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ad770b/AD770B05.htm |archivedate=8 November 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> 
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| discharge1_avg     =(Period: 1965–2013){{cvt|1,106.96|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón">{{cite web|url=https://repositorio.ana.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12543/39|title=Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón|year=2015}}</ref>
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| source1_elevation  = {{cvt|1,125|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022">{{cite book|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1877/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022|year=2022}}</ref>
| mouth              = [[Marañón River]]
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| mouth_coordinates  = {{coord|4|44|S|77|4|W|display=inline,title}}
| mouth_elevation    = {{cvt|129|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022">{{cite book|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1877/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022|year=2022}}</ref>
| progression        = [[Marañón River|Marañón]] → [[Amazon River|Amazon]] → [[Atlantic Ocean]]
| river_system       = [[Amazon River|Amazon]]
| basin_size_km2 = 16,961.9
| basin_size_ref = <ref name="Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón">{{cite web|url=https://repositorio.ana.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12543/39|title=Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón|year=2015}}</ref>
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The '''Morona''' River is a [[tributary]] to the [[Marañón River]] in Peru and Ecuador, and flows parallel to the [[Pastaza River]] and immediately to the west of it, and is the last stream of any importance on the northern side of the Amazon before reaching the [[Pongo de Manseriche]].

It is formed from a multitude of water-courses which descend the slopes of the [[Ecuador]]ian [[Andes]] south of the gigantic volcano of [[Sangay]]; but it soon reaches the plain, which commences where it receives its [[Cusulima]] branch.  The Morona is navigable for small craft for about 300 miles above its mouth, but it is extremely tortuous. [[Canoe]]s may ascend many of its branches, especially the [[Cusuhma]] and the [[Miazal]], the latter almost to the base of Sangay. The Morona has been the scene of many rude explorations, with the hope of finding it serviceable as a commercial route between the inter-Andean tableland of Ecuador and the Amazon river.

In 2016, a large [[oil spill]] from [[Petroperú]]'s pipeline contaminated the Morona and [[Chiriaco River|Chiriaco]] rivers.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=23 February 2016 |title=Peru oil spill pollutes Amazon rivers used by indigenous group |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35636738 |access-date=27 June 2024 |newspaper=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Wyre Davies |date=15 March 2016 |title=Indigenous community in Peru suffers after oil spill |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35803496 |access-date=27 June 2024 |newspaper=BBC News}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Tributaries of the Amazon River]]
[[Category:Rivers of Ecuador]]
[[Category:Rivers of Peru]]
[[Category:International rivers of South America]]


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