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| Esmeraldas River | |
|---|---|
  Mouth location in Ecuador | |
| Location | |
| Country | Ecuador |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 0°59′51″N 79°38′24″W / 0.9975°N 79.6400°W |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Length | 210 km (130 miles) |
The Esmeraldas River is a 210 km (130 mi) river in northwestern Ecuador that flows into the Pacific Ocean at the city of Esmeraldas. Among its tributaries is the Guayllabamba River which drains Quito. Charles Marie de la Condamine sailed up it and then climbed the Andes Mountains when on the Ecuadorian Expedition that left France in May 1735.
The mouth of the river has extensive stands of mangroves, part of the Esmeraldas–Pacific Colombia mangroves ecoregion. [1]
Fauna
Fish
- The Green Terror Cichlid Andinoacara rivulatus ( Günther, 1860) [2]
- Andinoacara blombergi Wijkmark, S. O. Kullander & Barriga S., 2012 [3]
References
- ^ Carlos Borda, Northern South America: Northern Colombia, WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature, retrieved 2017-06-19
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Andinoacara rivulatus" in FishBase. May 2017 version.
- ^ Wijkmark, N., Kullander, S.O. & Barriga S., R.E. (2012): Andinoacara blombergi, a new species from the río Esmeraldas basin in Ecuador and a review of A. rivulatus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (2): 117-137.
