The centerpiece of Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark is the Rio Aventura. It's both an attraction and a transportation system. In fact, it's the world's first Transportainment system. Rio Aventura has both slow flowing sections and whitewater rapids. Plus it will carry you from ride to ride and from beach to beach without ever having to get out of the water.

You enter at Rio Beach then float to the nearby Aqua-veyor, a conveyor that carries you to the headwaters of the Rio Aventura. The first section of the river is a lazy float. If you wish you can detour off the river and onto two tube chutes: the Agua Blanca or Toribio's Tube Chute--both of which begin and end in the Rio Aventura. Or you can float into the in-water line for the Gale Force, Storm Chaser, or Sea Blaster uphill water coasters or you can step out of the river and climb to the start of the Tempest uphill water coaster. All of these rides also return you directly into the main stream of the Rio Aventura.

Just past the start of the Tempest, the Rio Aventura tumbles over a waterfall and the whitewater section of the river begins. Eventually the river calms down and you float through the rest of the park to Rio Beach where your adventure began.