Potaro River
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| Location | |
| Country | Guyana |
| Province | Potaro-Siparuni |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Essequibo River |
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| Basin features | |
| Progression | Essequibo → Atlantic Ocean |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Mure-Mure, Uewang, Kuribrong |
| • right | Kopinang, Kawaik, Arnik, Amakwa, Ekureparu, Maniparu |
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The Potaro River is a river in Guyana that runs from Mount Ayanganna area of the Pakaraima Mountains for approximately 255 km (158 mi) before flowing into the Essequibo River, Guyana's largest river. The renowned Kaieteur Falls is on the Potaro.
Features
Nine waterfalls are found on the Potaro River, most notable being Kaieteur Falls and Tumatumari Falls. Below Kaieteur Falls lie Amatuk Falls[3] and Waratuk Falls.
A 1930 Suspension bridge, the Garraway Stream Bridge crosses the river. As well, 'Two Islands' is found on the Potaro River.
Minerals
Placer gold and diamonds are extracted from the river in this mineral-rich area. Many thousands of ounces of placer gold have been recovered from the area's stream gravels, residual placers and saprolites.
The two largest gem-quality diamonds recovered in Guyana to date – 56.75 carats (11.35 g) from Little Uewang River and 25.67 carats (5.134 g) from Maple Creek – were recovered in the Potaro area.
Illegal dredging is used in mining, and is hard to monitor due to Potato River's isolation.[4]
The mineral potarite is named for the river where it was first discovered by Sir John Burchmore Harrison.[5]
Settlements
Villages along the Potaro include Micobie, Tumatumari,[6] Chenapau (south of Kaieteur Falls), and Menzies Landing, a 20-minute walk upriver from Kaieteur Falls, is the main staging area for up river travel. Up river from the falls, the Potaro Plateau stretches out to the distant escarpment of the Pakaraima Mountains.
Potaro Landing
The Potaro River is navigable up to Potaro Landing. Further upstream, rapids and waterfalls make travel by boat impossible.[7] In 1933, the Denham Suspension Bridge opened near Potaro Landing to shorten the access to the gold fields of the interior.[8][9] There was a daily steamer service from Tumatumari Landing to Potaro Landing to transport passenger and freight to the interior.[10]
The population of Potaro Landing and surrounding area was 112 people in 2012.[11] Potaro Landing is located at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Atlantic North Coast".
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Faustino, Morales (1999). GEOGRAFÍA FÍSICA DEL TERRITORIO EN RECLAMACIÓN GUYANA ESEQUIBA. Fondo Editorial Humanidades. ISBN 980-00-1617-1.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Geologist, British Guiana Government (1900). Report on the Geology of the Essequibo, Potaro, Konawaruk and Demerara Rivers. C.K. Jardine, printer to the government of British Guiana. p. 56.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dredges continue to defy cease order in Potaro area". Stabroek News. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Spencer, L. J. (14 March 2018). "Potarite, a new mineral discovered by the late Sir John Harrison in British Guiana". Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society. 21 (120): 397–406. doi:10.1180/minmag.1928.021.120.02. ISSN 0369-0148.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Micobie". Stabroek News. 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.W.J.P. Benson (1914). The West Indies & British Guiana. p. 31. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Denham Suspension Bridge". National Trust of Guyana. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bridges". Guyana Times International. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dmitri Allicock (19 June 2011). "Memory lane". Stabroek News. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
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