Puelo River

Puelo River
Bridge on the Carretera Austral
Puelo River is located in Chile
Puelo River
Location of mouth
Native nameRío Puelo (Spanish)
Location
Countries
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationPuelo Lake
Mouth 
 • location
Reloncaví Estuary (Pacific Ocean)
 • coordinates
42°07′00″S 71°43′00″W / 42.116667°S 71.716667°W / -42.116667; -71.716667
Discharge 
 • average670 m3/s (24,000 cu ft/s)[1]

The Puelo River has its origin in Lake Puelo in Argentine, and flows north-west through the Andes into Chile and the Reloncaví Estuary of the Reloncaví Sound at the northern end of the Gulf of Ancud.[2]

  1. ^ "Hidrografía Región de los Lagos". Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  2. ^ "Rio Puelo". GeoNames. Retrieved July 24, 2021.