Cisnes River
River in Chile
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The Cisnes River (Spanish for swan) is a river located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of the Chilean Patagonia. It runs in east-west direction from the mountains near the border to Argentina and empties into the Pacific Ocean, near the town of Puerto Cisnes at Puyuhuapi Channel. Its characteristic turquoise-blue color is due to the glacial sediments deposited in it. Moro River and Pinchado River are some of the major tributaries of the river.
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| Cisnes River (Río Cisnes) | |
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From a lookout point at the Carretera Austral, which is also visible in the photo | |
Cisnes River in the Aysén Region | |
| Location | |
| Country | Chile |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | Puyuhuapi Channel, Pacific Ocean |
| Length | 160 km (99 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 5,464 km2 (2,110 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 700 m3/s (25,000 cu ft/s)[2] |
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Climate
Cisnes river has a Mediterranean continental climate with warm summers (Dsb, according to the Köppen climate classification), since at least 4 months have an average temperature above 10 °C (50 °F) and at least one month has an average temperature below 0 °C (32 °F), using the threshold of -3 °C its climate would be Mediterranean subalpine (Csc).
| Climate data for Río Cisnes (1987–2013) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 20.0 (68.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
17.3 (63.1) |
12.3 (54.1) |
8.2 (46.8) |
5.3 (41.5) |
4.2 (39.6) |
6.1 (43.0) |
9.8 (49.6) |
12.2 (54.0) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.6 (65.5) |
12.6 (54.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 12.5 (54.5) |
13.5 (56.3) |
10.4 (50.7) |
6.4 (43.5) |
2.8 (37.0) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
1.5 (34.7) |
4.9 (40.8) |
7.2 (45.0) |
9.6 (49.3) |
11.7 (53.1) |
6.7 (44.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.1 (41.2) |
5.3 (41.5) |
3.5 (38.3) |
0.4 (32.7) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
−5.3 (22.5) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
2.2 (36.0) |
3.7 (38.7) |
4.7 (40.5) |
0.7 (33.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 19 (0.7) |
14 (0.6) |
39 (1.5) |
21 (0.8) |
43 (1.7) |
44 (1.7) |
41 (1.6) |
38 (1.5) |
27 (1.1) |
19 (0.7) |
18 (0.7) |
20 (0.8) |
342 (13.5) |
| Source: Atlas Agroclimatico de Chile[3] | |||||||||||||
