Chucunaque River

Chucunaque River is one of the longest rivers in Panama. It is a tributary of the Tuira River in the Darién Province. It is the longest river in Panama. Chucunaque River is situated nearby to Quebrada El Purgatorio, and north of Quebrada Uruseca. Small natural watercourses are sometimes called rivulets, but a variety of names—including branch, brook, burn, and creek—are more common, occurring regionally to nationally in place names. Arroyo and (dry) wash connote ephemeral streams or their resultant channels. Tiny streams or channels are referred to as rills or tunnels.

The Chucunaque Rive is nourished by precipitation, direct overland runoff, through springs and seepages, or from meltwater at the edges of snowfields and glaciers. The contribution of direct precipitation on the water surface is usually minute, except where much of a catchment area is occupied by lakes. River water losses result from seepage and percolation into shallow or deep aquifers (permeable rock layers that readily transmit water) and particularly from evaporation. The difference between the water input and loss sustains surface discharge or streamflow. The amount of water in river systems at any time is but a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total water; 97 percent of all water is contained in the oceans and about three-quarters of freshwater is stored as land ice; nearly all the remainder occurs as groundwater.