Rupununi River

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The Rupununi River is a river in southern Guyana, originating in the Kanuku Mountains.^{[citation needed]} The Rupununi River drains into the Essequibo River but is also part of the Amazon River watershed.^{[citation needed]} During the rainy season it is connected to the Takutu River by the flooded Pirara Creek, draining the vast swamps of the Parima or Amaku Lake.^{[citation needed]}

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• Fowler, Frank (1908). The Geology of the Goldfields of British Guiana. Original from the University of Michigan. p. 16. http://books.google.com/books?id=aXtIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA16&dq=%22Rupununi+River%22+Kanuku&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a. 
• Timehri. Original from the University of Michigan: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana. 1895. p. 119. http://books.google.com/books?id=zq43AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA119&dq=%22Rupununi+River%22+Kanuku&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a.