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  2. Marañón River - Wikipedia

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    The Marañón was the subject of a landmark legal ruling related to the rights of nature. In March 2024, a Peruvian court ruled that the river itself has fundamental rights, including the right to ecological flows and to be free from pollution. [6]

  3. Rights of nature law - Wikipedia

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    The Marañón River, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, recognized as a legal entity with inherent rights. The Nauta court in Loreto has ruled that what is one of the country's most important rivers and water sources must now be considered a subject with real rights.

  4. Jivaroan peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Jivaroan peoples are the indigenous peoples in the headwaters of the Marañon River [1] and its tributaries, in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador. The tribes speak the Chicham languages. [2] Their traditional way of life relies on gardening, and on hunting with blowguns and darts poisoned with curare. Complex spiritual beliefs are built ...

  5. Cañari–Puruhá languages - Wikipedia

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    Cañari (Cañar, Kanyari) and Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) are two poorly-attested extinct languages of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador that are difficult to classify. Puruhá is scarcely attested, and Cañari is known primarily from placenames.

  6. Aguaruna people - Wikipedia

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    The Aguaruna (or Awajún, their endonym) are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon-Andes divide. They live primarily on the Marañón River in northern Peru near the border with Ecuador and several of the Marañón's tributaries, the rivers Santiago, Nieva, Cenepa, Numpatakay and Chiriaco.

  7. Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin - Wikipedia

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    The Chachapoya, originally from the region of Kuelap to the east of the Marañón, were conquered by the Inca shortly before the Spanish conquest, and many were deported after the Inca Civil War. They sided with the Spanish and achieved independence for a time, but were then deported again by the Spanish, where most died of introduced disease.

  8. Pongo de Rentema - Wikipedia

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    The Pongo de Rentema is a gorge in northwest Peru, located 14 kilometres from the city of Bagua, in the province of the same name in Amazonas Department.The Marañón River runs through this gorge (and water gap) before it reaches the Amazon Basin.

  9. Huallaga River - Wikipedia

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    The Huallaga River is a tributary of the Marañón River, part of the Amazon Basin. Old names for this river include Guallaga and Rio de los Motilones. The Huallaga is born on the slopes of the Andes in central Peru and joins the Marañón before the latter reaches the Ucayali River to form the Amazon. Its main affluents are the Monzón, Mayo ...