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Tomebamba River

river in Ecuador

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ595332 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tomebamba River is a river of Ecuador. It runs through the city of Cuenca and merges with the Machángara River forming the Matadero River in the basin of the Amazon River and the Atlantic Ocean.

See also

List of rivers of Ecuador

References

Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.

Editorial summary

“Tomebamba River” enters the record as river in Ecuador. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tomebamba, River and river can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tomebamba, River and river.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tomebamba River” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tomebamba, River and river provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q595332. Authority coordinates are -2.888, -78.954. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Tomebamba River”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tomebamba River primary sources, Tomebamba River archive and Tomebamba 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 “Tomebamba River”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tomebamba 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.