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EssequiboLongest river in Guyana, South America, draining more than half the total area of the country; length 1,014 km/630 mi; it rises in the Guiana Highlands of southern Guyana and flows north past Bartica to meet the Atlantic at a 32 km/20 mi wide delta. Its course is interrupted by numerous rapids and falls, but its lower course is navigable for large vessels for 80 km/50 mi as far as Bartica. Its major tributaries include the Rupununi, Potaro, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni rivers. In 1995 significant environmental damage was caused when a huge quantity of cyanide was released into the River Essequibo. 130,000 sq km/50,190 sq mi of Guyanese territory west of the Essequibo is claimed by Venezuela.
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In manufacturing, Barama Company will invest US$35 million in a new sawmilling complex and two state-of the-art wood processing plants in the Essequibo River. She lived and worked in the jungles of Guyana and Venezuela for 2 years (1993 and 1994), spending most of her time around the Cuyuni, Essequibo, and Rupununi River areas, although she also spent some time in the Bolivar state of Venezuela. The developing world is rapidly writing its own list of horror spills and accidents: In 1995, 845 million gallons of cyanide waste was released into the Essequibo River ha Guyana, killing all aquatic life; in January 2000, 150 miles of the Danube River was polluted after a cyanide spill in Romania; and in Kyrgyzstan, in 1998, 3,884 pounds of highly toxic sodium cyanide was spilled. |
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