Chone River
{{short description|River of Ecuador}}
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| name = Chone River
| name_native = {{native name |und |Chuni mayu|paren=no}}
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| name_other = Río de Chone
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| image = Desembocadura del Río Chone.jpg
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| image_caption = Mouth of the Chone River looking east from the city of Bahía de Caráquez
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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of mouth
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Ecuador
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Manabí
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| mouth = Bahía de Caráquez
| mouth_location = Pacific Ocean, Ecuador
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The Chone River is a river of Ecuador situated in the Manabí Province.{{GEOnet2|32FA8839B9553774E0440003BA962ED3|Chone, Río de (Approved)}}, GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency The river is sourced from the mountains and flows into the Bahía de Caráquez (Bay of Caráquez) in the Pacific Ocean, near the town of Bahía de Caráquez.
Dams
The large Esperanza Dam (Represa de Esperanza) was completed on the Chone in 1985. It does not have any hydroelectric power component, but was constructed solely for irrigation and flood control.{{Citation|author1=Buckalew, James O. |author2=James, Maurice |author3=Scott, Lisa |author4=Reed, Paul |year=1998|title= Water Resources Assessment of Ecuador|publisher=Mobile District and Topographic Engineering Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers|page=1 |url=http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/en/wra/Ecuador/Ecuador%20WRA%20English.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153138/http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/en/wra/Ecuador/Ecuador%20WRA%20English.pdf|archivedate=16 July 2011|url-status=dead}}
See also
Notes
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References
- [http://www.codeso.com/TurismoEcuador/Mapa_Manabi.html www.codeso.com / Map of Manabí Province]
- Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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Category:Geography of Manabí Province
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