Cuyuni River

The Cuyuní River is a South American river that could be a tributary of the Essequibo River. It's 618 km in length. It rises withinside the Japanese a part of the Bolívar State of Venezuela and crosses from West to East the complete disputed place, among Venezuela and Guyana, called Guayana Esequiba. In a few sections it serves because the restrict of the disputed territory (which incorporates a massive a part of the Cuyuní River) that is presently occupied and administered with the aid of using the Guyanese State (previously the colony of British Guiana) which has identified the Venezuelan competition of sovereign rights withinside the place consistent with the Geneva Agreement.

It has a basin of 50,347 km², of which approximately 12,192 km² are in Guayana Esequiba. In the Venezuelan a part of its basin it gets the call of Yuruari and gets tributaries, at the left, which might be born with inside the Nuria Plateau, together with the Botanamo; and at the right, rivers that come from the Gran Sabana, together with the Venamo. Shortly earlier than its mouth withinside the Essequibo, it gets the Mazaruni River at the right.

Length: 618 km