Chone River

Chone River Río de Chone
Mouth of the Chone River looking east from the city of Bahía de Caráquez
Location of mouth
Native name	Chuni mayu
Location
Country	Ecuador
Province	Manabí
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Ecuador
• coordinates	00°32′S 79°58′W
• elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Mouth	Bahía de Caráquez
• location	Pacific Ocean, Ecuador
• coordinates	0°35′14″S 080°25′07″W
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Basin size	2,384 km^2 (920 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	mouth
• average	53 m^3/s (1,900 cu ft/s)

The Chone River is a river of Ecuador situated in the Manabí Province.[1] 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.[2]

See also

• Isla Corazón
• List of rivers of Ecuador

Notes

1. Chone, Río de (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
2. Buckalew, James O.; James, Maurice; Scott, Lisa; Reed, Paul (1998), Water Resources Assessment of Ecuador (PDF), Mobile District and Topographic Engineering Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers, p. 1, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011

References

• www.codeso.com / Map of Manabí Province
• Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.