Talk:Orinoco

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You can upload the map of the Orinoco Basin included in the Spanish Wikipedia (article: Cuenca del Orinoco). --Fev 22:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ciudad Bolívar or Ciudad Guayana?

The article states that the river is navigable by ocean going ships as far as Ciudad Bolívar at the confluence of the Caroni River. Hower the Caroni enters the Orinoco at Ciudad Guayana, not Ciudad Bolívar, the latter being further upstream. So which of the two is it navigable to? Booshank 18:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• Hello bookshank, I've visited the two places in question, and you're right, "the Caroni enters the Orinoco at Ciudad Guayana". I took the the http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Orinico_ciudad_bilivar_venezuela.jpg photo' a couple of years ago (sorry about the spelling mistake in the filename)- the original first bridge over the river was at Ciudad Bolívar, and as you can see by the photo' , the river really does narrow at this point. I can't be sure about this, but I'd GUESS that ocean-going ships can get as far as Ciudad Bolívar. (The two cities are fairly close, - about an hour or so by car, if I remember rightly)Wikityke 22:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)