Río Santa Cruz
The Río Santa Cruz is a river of Patagonie Argentina which runs in province of Santa Cruz. It extremely abundant is compared with its neighbors like the Río Coig and the Río Gallegos.
It is born in the Andes cordillera where it constitutes the emissary of the important ones lakes Argentino and Viedma, which collects abundant water of the cast iron of the glaciers which surround them.
The flow of Río Santa Cruz is estimated at 750 m ³ a second, on average, that is to say more than 23 billion tons per annum. (as comparison this flow is comparable with those of the Loire in France or Elba in Germany, or is equivalent to once and half the total flow of the Seine in Le Havre).
The surface of its basin is of 28.056 km ² (surface equivalent to a little more than 90% of the territory of Belgium). Its length is estimated at 385 km.
(Source SCIELO - Assoc.géol.argentine and EVARSA 1997)
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