The Escalante River (Spanish: Rio Escalante) is a river of Venezuela. It drains into Lake Maracaibo.
| Escalante River | |
|---|---|
.jpg)  Mouth location in Venezuela | |
| Native name | Rio Escalante (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Venezuela |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 9°14′45″N 71°47′07″W / 9.245967°N 71.785386°W |
The river rises in the Venezuelan Andes. It then flows through the Maracaibo dry forests ecoregion before emptying into Lake Maracaibo.[1]
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- ^ Locklin, Claudia, South America: Northwestern corner of Venezuela (NT0222), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-04-24