Bermejo River
This article is about a river in northern Argentina and southern Bolivia. For the river of the same name in western Argentina, see Río Salado del Oeste.
The Río Bermejo, also known simply as the Bermejo, is a river in southern South America.
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The source of the Bermejo is in the Bolivian Cordillera in Bolivia near the border with Argentina, through which it continues its course to join the Río Paraguay at the border with Paraguay, just above its confluence with the Paraná. The river has a length of about 1450 km. The middle section, called "Teuco", is navigable for half a year.
The catchment area of the Bermejo includes southern Bolivia and northwestern and northern Argentina.
The river already had strategic importance for Bolivia's foreign trade in the 19th century:
"The articles of European industry can be brought to the frontier of Bolivia from Paraguay, but to the north of the Argentine republic by means of the Bermejo river with greater facility, and therefore at less expense, than their transportation requires by the long route round Cap Horn to Valparaíso, which is at present the market of Bolivia."
See also
- List of the longest rivers on earth
