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Telire River

river in Costa Rica

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 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7697331
Source-derived summary

The Telire River is a river in Costa Rica located in the province of Limón, in the eastern part of the country. The confluence of Telire with the Yorkin River creates the Sixaola, which is part of the border between Costa Rica and Panama.

A rainforest climate prevails in the area. The average annual temperature is 22 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is 22 °C, and the coldest is January, at 19 °C. The average annual average is 2 550 millimeters. The rainiest month is July, with an average of 434 mm of precipitation, and the driest is February, with 75 mm of rain.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Telire River” is river in Costa Rica. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Telire, 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 109-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Telire, River and river is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “river in Costa Rica” 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

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 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7697331. VIAF identifies the subject as 1709155286639687180008. The Library of Congress control number is sh2018002621. Authority coordinates are 9.560, -82.886. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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 “Telire River”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Telire River primary sources, Telire River archive and Telire 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 “Telire River”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Telire 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.