# Locating a river in Chile **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 19, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572 "2017-01-19T20:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572/1 "2017-01-19T20:33:11Z")
I’m trying to locate _Rio Guarasibo_ in Chile. No results in Google. Can you help ? ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572/2 "2017-01-20T00:04:58Z")
> [@Gymnopithys](#): > > I’m trying to locate _Rio Guarasibo_ in Chile. No results in Google. Can you help ? Maybe a mispelling or a mapping to a persons name (on the basis its _meant_ it be named after him ? ). Shortening is often done because people don’t say it the way its spelt. So look in the list of rivers … There’s three which are close , at least starting with guar… > **[List of rivers of Chile (D–O)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Chile_(D%E2%80%93O))** > > The information regarding the (Chilean) river names from D-O on this page has been compiled from the data supplied by GeoNames. It includes all features named "Rio", "Canal", "Arroyo", "Estero" and those whose Feature Code is associated with a stream of water.\[note 1\] > This list contains: ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572/3 "2017-01-20T04:51:00Z")
See if [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Chile_(D%E2%80%93O)) will get you to the right one. Guairabo, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572/4 "2017-01-20T13:36:17Z")
There’s a Guaraibo, or Guaraivo, lake in the El Yali wetlands. Mentioned [here](http://mikamienvironmentalblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/introducao-ao-meio-ambienteenvironmenta_14.html). According to the annotated photo [here](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QfIoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=guaraivo+el+yali&source=bl&ots=FkwKGfKMvX&sig=fAifn_0YVYdiG535zA65DcerHUY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0oZWB69DRAhXG0RoKHVkdDhQQ6AEIMTAC#v=onepage&q=guaraivo%20el%20yali&f=false), it is roughly [HERE](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Reserva+Nacional+El+Yal%C3%AD/@-33.770014,-71.7094841,1062m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x966233cad2e6ea65:0x6a97b54571092a76!8m2!3d-33.749464!4d-71.7016639?hl=en) but seems to have dried up now. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572/5 "2017-01-20T17:25:42Z")
> [@Gymnopithys](#): > > I’m trying to locate _Rio Guarasibo_ in Chile. No results in Google. Can you help ? Where did you find reference to the existence of this river and what was the context? That might help us track it down if, for example, it was misspelled. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locating-a-river-in-chile/777572/6 "2017-01-20T20:30:33Z")
Thank you both for this exhaustive list (and otherwise useful to me). _Guairabo_ is precisely in the region I expected it to be. Google Earth situates it NE of Concepcion. **Bibliophage** : The name _Guarasibo_ appears on a herbarium specimen label, with no other precision.