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River Length (km) Length (miles) Outflow 1. Ucayali: 1,771 1100 Amazon 2. Marañón: 1,414 879 Amazon 3. Putumayo: 1,380 858 Amazon 4. Yavarí: 1,184 736
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Rivers of Peru" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 ...
Lakes of Peru (2 C, 369 P) R. Rivers of Peru (3 C, 127 P) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Peru" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Satellite imagery of Peru Topographic map of Peru Political map of Peru Vegetation of Peru. Peru is a country on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean. It lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, its northernmost extreme reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) south of the equator.
Topographic map of Peru. Peru has a large amount of water resources, with 159 river basins and a per capita availability of 68,321 cubic meters (m 3) in 2006. According to FAO the long-run average annual rainfall is 1,738 millimeters (mm). There is significant seasonal variability in river run-offs, two-thirds of which occur between January and ...
Two of the top ten rivers by discharge are tributaries of the Amazon river. The Amazon represents 20% of the global riverine discharge into oceans. [ 26 ] The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi). [ 3 ]
The Ucayali River (Spanish: Río Ucayali, IPA: [ˈri.o wkaˈʝali]) is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about 110 km (68 mi) north of Lake Titicaca , in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city.
The Marañón River (Spanish: Río Marañón, IPA: [ˈri.o maɾaˈɲon], Quechua: Awriq mayu) is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m (12,000 feet) high, [4] it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of ...