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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 city of Pucallpa is located on the banks of the Ucayali.
The company's headquarters are on the fifth floor of the Wyndham hotel in the regional capital of Pucallpa, a city of 300,000 on the banks of the Ucayali River.
The Shanay-timpishka, more popularly known as the "Boiling River of the Amazon," is a tributary of the Pachitea River, which subsequently flows into the Ucayali River, the main headstream of the Amazon River. Though not the only thermal river in the world, it is the largest documented.
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
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Shipibo pottery in the Museo de América, Madrid, Spain. The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru.Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal rituals and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people.
Pucallpa is an important river port that, through the Ucayali River, communicates with the other large city of the Peruvian Amazon, Iquitos, and with Leticia, a Colombian city located on the tripartite border between Peru, Colombia and Brazil. River transportation has been considered prior to highway construction.