Tampaón River
river in San Luis Potosí, Mexico
The Tampaón River, also known as the Tamuin River, is a river in northeastern Mexico. It is a principal tributary of the Pánuco River, draining portions of San Luis Potosí Guanajuato, Querétaro, and Veracruz states.
It is formed by the confluence of the Santa Maria River and the Rio Verde, which originate on the Mexican Plateau and flow through canyons in the Sierra Madre Oriental. The rivers join in the Sierra to form the Tampaón and it continues east, emerging onto the Gulf Coastal Plain, where it is joined by tributaries that drain the wetter eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre. It winds eastwards to join the Moctezuma River and form the Pánuco River in Veracruz state.
The eastern slopes of the Sierra are formed mostly of porous limestone, and the dissolved limestone gives the river a jade-green color.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tampaón River” is river in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tampaón, River and river, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q35435206. Authority coordinates are 21.969, -98.563. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tampaón 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.