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San Pedro de Inacaliri River
San Pedro de Inacaliri River, or called simply San Pedro River, is a river of Chile located in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region. It begins at the confluence of the rivers Silala and Cajon, at an elevation over 4,000 m asl.
A part of its flow is diverted (between 50 and 60 l/s) and conducted across the desert to Chuquicamata for domestic water supply. About 8 km south, the waters of the river disappear in a floodplain area to reappear 15 km downstream at the so-called Ojos del San Pedro in the form of a partially overground stream, at the eastern border of a salt flat with a surface of 5 km.
Before discharging into Loa River, the river skirts the San Pedro volcano, where it has carved a 100-m-deep canyon through a rhyolite lava flow.
References
This article draws heavily on the [[:es:Rio San Pedro de Inacaliri|corresponding article]] in the [[:es:Portada|Spanish-language Wikipedia]], accessed August 31, 2007.
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