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Merevarí River

river in Venezuela

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6819070 ↗
Source-derived summary

Merevarí River is a river of Venezuela. It is part of the Orinoco River basin.

See also

List of rivers of Venezuela

References

Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Merevarí River” is river in Venezuela. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Merevarí, River and river, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Merevarí, River and river is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “river in Venezuela” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6819070. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Merevarí River”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Merevarí River primary sources, Merevarí River archive and Merevarí research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Merevarí River”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Merevarí River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.