Morona River

{{Short description|River in Ecuador and Peru}} {{Infobox river | name = Morona River | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology =  | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption=  | subdivision_type1 = Countries | subdivision_name1 = {{hlist|Ecuador|Peru}} | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 =  | length_km = 663.91 | length_ref = <ref name="Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022">{{cite book|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1877/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022|year=2022}}</ref> {{cvt|550|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref name=fao>{{cite book |last1=Ziesler |first1=R. |last2=Ardizzone |first2=G.D. |title=The Inland waters of Latin America |year=1979 |url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ad770b/AD770B05.htm |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |isbn=92-5-000780-9 |chapter=Amazon River System |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108152358/http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ad770b/AD770B05.htm |archivedate=8 November 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= Near mouth | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg =(Period: 1965–2013){{cvt|1,106.96|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón">{{cite web|url=https://repositorio.ana.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12543/39|title=Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón|year=2015}}</ref> | discharge1_max =  | source1 = | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= | source1_elevation = {{cvt|1,125|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022">{{cite book|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1877/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022|year=2022}}</ref> | mouth = Marañón River | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|4|44|S|77|4|W|display=inline,title}} | mouth_elevation = {{cvt|129|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022">{{cite book|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1877/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Anuario de Estadistícas Ambientales 2022|year=2022}}</ref> | progression = Marañón → Amazon → Atlantic Ocean | river_system = Amazon | basin_size_km2 = 16,961.9 | basin_size_ref = <ref name="Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón">{{cite web|url=https://repositorio.ana.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12543/39|title=Evaluación de recursos hídricos en la cuenca Marañón|year=2015}}</ref> | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }} The '''Morona''' River is a tributary to the Marañón River in Peru and Ecuador, and flows parallel to the Pastaza River and immediately to the west of it, and is the last stream of any importance on the northern side of the Amazon before reaching the Pongo de Manseriche.

It is formed from a multitude of water-courses which descend the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes south of the gigantic volcano of Sangay; but it soon reaches the plain, which commences where it receives its Cusulima branch. The Morona is navigable for small craft for about 300 miles above its mouth, but it is extremely tortuous. Canoes may ascend many of its branches, especially the Cusuhma and the Miazal, the latter almost to the base of Sangay. The Morona has been the scene of many rude explorations, with the hope of finding it serviceable as a commercial route between the inter-Andean tableland of Ecuador and the Amazon river.

In 2016, a large oil spill from Petroperú's pipeline contaminated the Morona and Chiriaco rivers.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=23 February 2016 |title=Peru oil spill pollutes Amazon rivers used by indigenous group |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35636738 |access-date=27 June 2024 |newspaper=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Wyre Davies |date=15 March 2016 |title=Indigenous community in Peru suffers after oil spill |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35803496 |access-date=27 June 2024 |newspaper=BBC News}}</ref>

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Category:Tributaries of the Amazon River Category:Rivers of Ecuador Category:Rivers of Peru Category:International rivers of South America