Escalante River (Venezuela)

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The Escalante River ({{langx|es|Rio Escalante}}) is a river of Venezuela. It drains into Lake Maracaibo.

The river rises in the Venezuelan Andes.

It then flows through the Maracaibo dry forests ecoregion before emptying into Lake Maracaibo.{{citation|title=South America: Northwestern corner of Venezuela (NT0222)|publisher=WWF: World Wildlife Fund |last=Locklin |first=Claudia |url=http://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/nt0222|accessdate=2017-04-24}}