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	Clutha River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Clutha River is the second longest river in New Zealand and flows south-southeast for 340 kilometres through Central and South Otago to the Pacific Ocean, 75 kilometres south west of Dunedin.
		The ultimate source of the river is at the end of the Makarora River, close to the saddle of the Haast Pass, which flows into the northern end of Lake Wanaka.
		This heavy flow, combined with the relatively small size of the river in global terms, makes the Clutha notoriously fast-flowing, and it is often listed as one of the world's most swiftly flowing rivers, alongside Australia's Macleay and Fitzroy Rivers, the Amazon and Atrato Rivers in South America, and the Teesta River in the Himalayas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clutha_River (774 words)

	Atrato - LoveToKnow 1911
		ATRATO, a river of western Colombia, South America, rising on the slopes of the Western Cordilleras, in 5° 36' N. lat., and flowing almost due north to the Gulf of Uraba, or Darien, where it forms a large delta.
		The river is navigable to Quibdo (250 m.), and for the greater part of its course for large vessels, but the bars at its mouth prevent the entrance of sea-going steamers.
		The Atrato at one time attracted considerable attention as a feasible route for a trans-isthmian canal, which, it was estimated, could be excavated at a cost of ii,000,000.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Atrato (191 words)

	Atrato River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Río Atrato is a river of northwestern Colombia.
		The gold and platinum mines of Chocó line some of its confluents, and the river sands are auriferous.
		The Atrato at one time attracted considerable attention as a feasible route for a trans-isthmian canal, but any such plans were abandoned in favour of the Panama Canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atrato (203 words)

	1421 - Evidence - Gavin Menzies Speeches - Talk C - The first Panama Canal and the first Suez Canal were built by the ...
		Either side of the Atrato River (which flows from south east Panama into the Caribbean have DNA which Professor Gabriel Novick and colleagues have summarised as follows: “Close similarity between the Chinese and native Americans suggests recent gene flow from Asia”.
		The San Juan River discharges more water into the Pacific than any other American river and the Atrato is the second-largest river in South America in terms of the volume of water discharged into the Atlantic.
		The lower part of the Atrato basin is characterised by swamps and shallow lakes in contrast to much of the San Juan River.
	www.1421.tv /pages/content/index.asp?PageID=90 (3831 words)

	Panama Canal - LoveToKnow 1911
		The principal difficulties to be encountered in carrying out this plan consisted in the enormous dimensions of the cut to be made at Culebra, and in the control of the Chagres river, the valley of which is occupied by the canal for a large part of its length.
		The line of the canal occupied essentially the bed of the river from the lake to the dam; from the dam to the Caribbean it followed the left bank of the river, keeping at a safe distance from it, and occasionally cutting through a high projecting ridge.
		The lake and the river above the dam constitute the summit-level, which would have varied in height at different seasons from 104 to 110 ft. above mean sea-level.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Panama_Canal (5422 words)

	Ethnologue report for Colombia
		Aduche River (tributary of Caquetá) 15 km downriver from Araracuara, Amazonas.
		Miraña are on the lower Caquetá River, near the mouth of the Cabinari River, Amazonas.
		Atrato River basin in Chocó Department, Pacific coastal rivers from Cabo Corrientes, to Antioquia (Rio Verde) Department.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=CO (1522 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Six hundred of the displaced remain at the spot where the Opogadó river runs into the Atrato river, which is the spinal column of the department of Chocó, on the border with Panama -- a jungle area of immense biodiversity where roads are few and far between and transportation is carried out by boat.
		The army ''killed six Indians who were hunting or fishing along the upper stretch of the Atrato river last year, and earlier this month troops murdered a displaced person in Quibdó, later depicting him as a guerrilla'' who was killed in combat, Flórez added.
		Government forces were accused of allowing paramilitary boats to reach the town, along the Atrato river, and of inexplicably failing to stage a preventive military action, thus leaving the civilian population completely exposed.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=23053 (1302 words)

	ATC No. 104 - Afro-Colombians Under Attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The village of Bellavista is situated in the municipality of Bojayá in the department of Chocó; across the Atrato River from the village of Vigía del Fuerte.
		Importantly for the residents of Bojayá, the Atrato River is of strategic importance for coca cultivation, drug trafficking and weapons-smuggling, and as one of several western transportation corridors that the paramilitary and the guerrilla have been fighting to control.
		ACIA has a territory of 695,254 hectares of land on either side of the Atrato River, which covers three municipalities and is in two deparments.
	www.solidarity-us.org /atc/ngweno104.html (3266 words)

	MSF Canada \| Travel Journals - Lost Between River and Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The region is bisected by the Atrato river, which by volume of water per kilometer is the third largest in the world.
		The Atrato is the artery of life for the area and the only transportation link to the outside world.
		Hundreds of rivers and a lush carpet of green were all I could see as our small twin engine plane circled for its final approach.
	www.msf.ca /journals/co (692 words)

	Noah's Ark sails through Colombia's conflict clogged river \| afrocolombia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But as the river traffic slows to a trickle, it is the civilians who have suffered the most.
		In an area where the river is the only means of transport, the blockade has restricted the movement of people.
		Sailing up the river in mid-October, the boat carried foodstuff and passengers from Quibdo to Bellavista, the sadly famous village in Bojaya municipality where a church explosion killed 119 people in May 2002.
	afrocolombia.org /node/18 (598 words)

	Nigaragua/Atrato River
		The Atrato region had lain dormant so far as world attention was concerned for more than 200 years when Humboldt recommended it as a canal possibility.
		Because of its width, depth, length, and route, the Atrato river lends itself favorably to consideration as a canal channel.
		The San Juan River, to which the Atrato has mostly been linked as a canal route and with which it was supposedly linked in actuality by the Raspadura Canal, rises only a short distance from the headwaters of the Atrato and flows southward for 150 miles.
	www.czbrats.com /Builders/atrato.htm (2189 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for meander
		Doubs DOUBS [Doubs] river, c.270 mi (435 km) long, rising in the Jura Mts., E France, and flowing northeast, forming part of the French-Swiss border, then looping into W Switzerland before turning back into France where it meanders southwest to empty into the Saône River.
		Giuba, river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed at the Ethiopia-Somalia border, E Africa, by the confluence of the Dawa and Genale rivers, both of which rise in the highlands of S Ethiopia.
		Land surfaces are never perfectly flat, and as a result the runoff after precipitation tends to flow downward by the shortest and steepest course in depressions formed by the intersection of slopes.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=meander (625 words)

	Solidarity with Afro-Colombians of Choco
		A Call for Solidarity with the African-Colombians of Chocó; By Proyecto deache ³The Flight² The images of the refugees in Bosnia fleeing the war there are dwarfed by the image of the hundreds of Colombian peasants who recently left the region of the Atrato river in the Department of Chocó.
		Today 250 are still at the mouth of the Atrato river, being unable to cross the Gulf of Urabá.
		The swift current in the broad Atrato River carried away innumerable headless bodies; many of them came out of the feeder rivers where dozens of small settlements once were and which can hardly be reached today.
	www.colombiasupport.net /choco/macondo.html (1282 words)

	China - Costa Rica: The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)
		This is a panoramic view of the route of the interoceanic river aqueduct through Nerqua Pass and surrounding coastline and countryside as seen from the Pacific Ocean.
		This map from President Millard Fillmore's collection includes rivers and streams, sources of gold, towns and settlements, roads, a projected canal connecting the San Juan and Atrato Rivers, hachured relief, marked distances along the route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, coastline, coastal features, and soundings.
		Sections Of The Interoceanic River Aqueduct connecting The Pacific Ocean with The River Atrato In the Province of Choco New Granada.
	www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/luso/china.html (4401 words)

	Colombia
		The boat is piloted by a seasoned sea wolf who knows every twist and turn of the rivers and all the secrets of these turbulent waters.
		The medical team, along with the equipment and supplies, are now transported by canoe and, although it is powered by a 50hp motor, the members of the crew have to jump out and give it a push from time to time.
		As the boat driver concentrates on the difficulties of navigating the river, the MHU team discusses the details of their next mission, which will take them to another destination in this part of the country in two days' time.
	www.redcross.int /en/mag/magazine2002_2/colombie.html (1010 words)

	COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF THE DISPLACED WILL NOT BE ERASED
		With this mission the uprooted community that, for 18 months live in conditions of extreme poverty in the shelters of the port of Turbo, crossed the Gulf of Uraba and the waters of the Atrato River to the village of Bocas.
		Jesus Jaramillo, Ana Joaquina Espinosa, Ramón Velasco, Rosario Romaña and other matriarchs and patriarchs collected water from the Atrato River, blessed it and gave life to a ritual of new birth in which they baptized the members of their communities and institutions that have accompanied them in their time of adversity.
		In the picture appears the rushing river burdened with bodies, without arms, that were hurled into the currents by the violent ones.
	www.colombiasupport.net /199810/101298displaced.html (1251 words)

	Diocese of Quibdó, Chocó: Second open letter to the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe ...
		The police, navy and army have installed so many checkpoints along the River Atrato that it is very difficult, and on occasions, impossible for travellers to arrive at their destination before six o'clock in the evening.
		Paramilitaries belonging to the "Elmer Cárdenas" group move large numbers of troops and equipment along the River Atrato and its tributaries (Opogadó, Napipí and Bojayá), passing through many areas which are under control of the armed forces.
		On 18 April, paramilitaries controlling the River Bojayá robbed a generator belonging to the community's sugar mill as a result of the armed forces' negligence.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/050427quib.htm (1139 words)

	Colombia: Return to hope - forcibly displaced communities of Urabá and Medio Atrato region - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is the case of some communities in the Medio Atrato region of the departments of Chocó and Antioquia to the south of the municipality of Riosucio.
		The River Salaquí is a tributary of the River Atrato which runs from the mountains to the west of Chocó.
		The tributary rivers of the River Atrato are essential to the lives of the communities: they provide a transport network, a source of food and water.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAMR230232000?open&of=ENG-2M3 (15225 words)

	Inter Pares - Photo essays
		They were determined to send a message to the armed actors that the river must be open to all and their freedom of movement must be respected.
		There are still confined communities along the Atrato River, and in many other parts of the country, but now people are talking about the problem.
		We hope the river will be what it was before, that boats can cross it again, that the Atrato's products can be purchased in the big cities.
	www.interpares.ca /en/photo_essay/4/page5.php (532 words)

	Atrato - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In strictly geological terms, Central America begins at the narrow Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico.
		Gold has been mined in Colombia since pre-Columbian times and is found principally in the department of Antioquía and to a lesser extent in the...
		The Andes of Colombia are drained north to the Caribbean Sea by the Magdalena, Cauca, and Atrato rivers, and east to the same body of water by the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Atrato&pg=1&grp=art (115 words)

	atrato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is one of the more wealthy river in the world, throwing to sea 49.000
		This river has an approximate length of 720 kms.
		There aren't falls in this river and there exists the possibility of using it for the construction of an interoceanic canal that connects the Caribbean with the Pacific oceans.
	www.mysen.vgs.no /latinscand/atrato.htm (86 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Occidental
		It is the commercial and transportation center of a region where cotton is grown and diamonds are mined.
		Atrato ATRATO [Atrato], river, c.415 mi (670 km) long, rising in the Cordillera Occidental, W Colombia.
		Nazas NAZAS [Nazas], river, c.180 mi (290 km) long, rising in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Durango state, N Mexico, and flowing generally east to disappear into the ground near Torreón.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Occidental (640 words)

	Colombia: field activities 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After an eight-hour journey along the Atrato river, the unit reaches Opogadó, a small Afro-Colombian community whose members returned to their village a couple of years ago, after spending over three years as displaced persons.
		This village on the banks of the Atrato gave the unit the chance of a much-needed break.
		The mobile health unit travels the Atrato river and its tributaries, bringing primary health care to areas that would otherwise be deprived of such services by the conflict.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/833AB2A41A129FD9C1256C3A004C247A?OpenDocument&Style=Custo_Final.3&View=defaultBody4 (331 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		They are reportedly planning to attack the communities of the Cacarica River Basin and other communities in the area, whose inhabitants have recently returned to resettlement camps after being forced to flee from their homes in 1997.
		The 'Peace Communities' together with the communities of the Cacarica River Basin have called on both sides in the conflict to respect their right to life and their right as civilians not to be drawn into the conflict.
		BACKGROUND INFORMATION The inhabitants of the communities in the Cacarica River Basin area and of the 'Peace Communities' have recently resettled in the area after they were forced to flee their homes in the wake of joint paramilitary-military operations in the region in early 1997.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001cov/Colombia:_Heightened_death_squad_activity (1552 words)

	Mining - Economy - Colombia - South America: mine world, atrato river, colombia economy, colombia oil, emerald mining
		Production of crude petroleum is centered in the Magdalena River valley, about 650 km (about 400 mi) from the Caribbean, and in the region between the Cordillera Oriental and Venezuela; it amounted to 302 million barrels in 1999.
		Gold, mined in Colombia since pre-Columbian times, is found principally in the department of Antioquia and to a lesser extent in the departments of Cauca, Caldas, Narino, Tolima, and Choco.
		Platinum, discovered in Colombia in 1735, is found in the gold-bearing sands of the San Juan and Atrato river basins.
	www.countriesquest.com /south_america/colombia/economy/mining.htm (291 words)

	Displaced people of the Cacarica
		The communities of the Cacarica River Basin (in Riosucio Municipality, Department of Chocó;) were forcibly displaced from their lands in February 1997.
		During this time, the displaced population have been subjected to constant accusations of supporting one of the sides in the conflict (this is a common stigma which the displaced population faces in Colombia - "if he left his area, it's because he was linked to one of the armed groups participating in the conflict").
		Not far away, on the other side of the Gulf of Urabá;, the displaced people located in Bocas del Atrato are working under an awning made of leaves and sticks; they are building a wooden boat in which they will one day begin the return to their lands, traveling up the rivers Atrato and Cacarica.
	www.peacebrigades.org /colombia/colreport0010a.html (1513 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA39, Colombian Pacific Coast Region, Colombia
		Mangroves; aquatic and marshy communities along rivers and in lentic environments; on riverbanks and beaches, communities on sandy terrain left by rivers; tropical wet and pluvial forests on firm (upland) terrain.
		The Colombian Pacific Coast region (Chocó sensu lato) is the stretch of land mainly between the Pacific Ocean and Cordillera Occidental of the Andes, from west of the mouth of the Atrato River near Panama to the Mataje River bordering north-western Ecuador (Rangel-Ch.
		The San Juan River discharges the most water to the Pacific of all the South American rivers (Barnes 1993), and the Atrato is the second largest river in South America in terms of the volume of water.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa39.htm (4044 words)

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