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    The Casiquiare river or canal (Spanish pronunciation: [kasiˈkjaɾe]) is a natural distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro...
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    to where it is joined by the Casiquiare canal, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. After following the Casiquiare to the Orinoco River they hovered...
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    River to the eastern part of Peru; in the north, it appears in the Casiquiare canal and the upper and middle Orinoco River. In Brazil, it is found in Rondônia...
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    the Caribbean, but which also drains into the South Atlantic via the Casiquiare canal and Amazon River. Since ridgelines are sometimes easy to see and agree...
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    Francisco Xavier de Moraes, ascending the Rio Negro, discovers the Casiquiare canal to the Orinoco. 1736 — Charles Marie de La Condamine sends the first...
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    people. That expedition continued, in 1920, to traverse the natural Casiquiare canal, and descend the Rio Negro to the Amazon at Manaus. His most important...
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    Orinoco between Puerto Samariapo [it] and Puerto Ayacucho, and the Casiquiare canal. This subspecies is not recognized by the Committee on Taxonomy of...
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    river passes. 120 km (75 mi) further downstream the river receives the Casiquiare canal from the left (north), forming a unique link between the Orinoco and...
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    found north of the Rio Negro, west of the Rio Marauiá and east of the Casiquiare canal. The Aracá uakari is currently known only from the Rio Curuduri basin...
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    is located on the shore of the Orinoco river, only 9 miles from the Casiquiare canal bifurcation that links it to the Amazon River. The settlement contains...
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