List of rivers of Colombia

Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted

The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems. That links two major river systems, a so-called bifurcation.

• Amazon River
  • Guainía River or Negro River
    • Vaupés River or Uaupés River
      • Papuri River
      • Querary River
    • Isana River or Içana River
      • Cuiari River
    • Aquio River
  • Caquetá River or Japurá River
    • Purui River
    • Apaporis River
      • Traíra River or Taraira River
      • Tunia River
      • Ajajú River
    • Miritiparaná River
    • Cahuinari River
    • Yarí River
    • Caguán River
      • Guayas River
    • Mecaya River
    • Orteguaza River
  • Putumayo River or Içá River
    • Cotuhé River
    • Igara Paraná River
    • Cara Paraná River
    • San Miguel River
    • Guamués River

The Orinoco drainage basin

• Orinoco River
  • Apure River (Venezuela)
    • Sarare River
  • Arauca River
  • Capanaparo River
  • Cinaruco River
  • Meta River
    • Vita River
    • Casanare River
      • Ariporo River
      • Cravo Norte River
    • Guachiría River
    • Pauto River
    • Cravo Sur River
    • Cusiana River
    • Manacacías River
    • Metica River
      • Guayuriba River
    • Upía River
      • Guavio River
      • Lengupá River
  • Tomo River
  • Tuparro River
  • Vichada River
  • Guaviare River
    • Inírida River
      • Papunáua River
    • Uvá River
    • Ariari River
      • Güejar River
    • Guayabero River
      • Duda River
      • Losada River

Tributaries of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracaibo

• Catatumbo River
  • Zulia River
    • Pamplonita River
      • Táchira River
  • Tibú River
    • Sardinata River
  • Tarra River
  • Río de Oro

• Atrato River
  • Salaqúí River
  • Sucio River
  • Bojayá River
  • Murrí River
• Fundación River
• Leon River

Magdalena River Basin

Cauca River course

Bogotá River and its drainage basin

< Canal del Dique (Levee Channel) - artificial bifurcation

• Magdalena River
  • Cesar River
    • Ariguaní River
    • Guatapurí River
  • San Jorge River
  • Cauca River
    • Nechi River
      • Porce River
        • Medellín River
    • Otun River
    • La Vieja River
      • Quindío River
    • Cali River
    • Jamundí River
      • Pance River
  • Lebrija River
  • Sogamoso River
    • Chicamocha River
    • Suárez River
  • Opon River
  • Carare River
  • Nare River
  • Samaná Norte River
    • Guatapé River
  • La Miel River
  • Negro River
  • Bogotá River
    • Apulo River
    • Soacha River
    • Balsillas River
      • Bojacá River
        • Subachoque River
    • Tunjuelo River
    • Fucha River
    • Arzobispo River, Juan Amarillo or Salitre
    • Torca River
    • Río Frío
    • Teusacá River
    • Neusa River
  • Sumapaz River
    • Cuja River
      • Guavio River
        • Batán River
  • Coello River
  • Saldaña River
  • Cabrera River
  • Ceibas River
  • Páez River
• Mendihuaca River
• Mulatos River
• Palomino River
• Ranchería River
• Sinú River