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This is a list of rivers of Peru, that are at least partially in Peru. The Peruvian government has published guidelines for the preparation of river flow studies in April 2015. The Peruvian government has published guidelines for the preparation of river flow studies in April 2015.
The Manu is a tributary to the 1,347 km long Madre de Dios River, which downriver joins the Madeira River, and ultimately the Amazon River. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this area of what was organized as the Madre de Dios region was exploited for the production of rubber during the rubber boom , with workers brought in by ...
The river flows in a northwesterly direction at a total length of 180.6 km (112.2 mi). The Ene River is part of the headwaters of the Amazon River whose origin is at the Mismi, south of the city of Cusco where it first becomes Apurímac River, then the Ene River and Tambo River before its waters meet the Ucayali River which later forms the Amazon.
Ruzo, who was the first to get permission to study it, revealed in a 2014 TED talk that the two-lane, 6.24 kilometer (3.87 miles) long river's temperature is actually a result of fault-fed hot ...
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The Urubamba River or Vilcamayo River [2] (possibly from Quechua Willkamayu, for "sacred river") [3] is a river in Peru. Upstream it is called Vilcanota River (possibly from Aymara Willkanuta, for "house of the sun"). [4] Within the La Convención Province, the name changes to Urubamba. [5] A partially navigable headwater of the Amazon River ...
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 ...
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