Atrato

Atrato, a river in the United States of Colombia, South America. Rising in a spur of the West Cordilleras, it flows almost due north, and after a course of 200 miles discharges itself by nine mouths into the Gulf of Darien. It is navigable for most of its course, and engineers have proposed to connect it by canal with the S. Juan, which falls into the Pacific, thus providing a substitute for the now practically abandoned Panama Canal.