Marañón, river, c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) long, rising in Lake Lauricaucha in the Cordillera Occidental, W central Peru. It flows generally NW, then E across the Andes to join the Ucayali Ucayali (
käyä`lē), river, c.
..... Click the link for more information. River in NE Peru where it forms the Amazon Amazon, Port. Amazonas (ämäzō`nəs), world's second longest river, c.
..... Click the link for more information. River; some consider the Marañón to be the authentic headwater of the Amazon, but an expedition in 2000 determined that the headwaters of the Apurímac Apurímac (aprē`mäk), river, c.
..... Click the link for more information. River (a tributary of the Ucayali) are the most distant from the Amazon's mouth. The Marañón is navigable to the Pongo de Manseriche, the gorge in NW Peru through which it flows before reaching the Amazon basin. The Huallaga River is its chief tributary. Pedro de Ursúa, the Spanish explorer, descended the Marañón in 1560.
käyä`lē), river, c...... Click the link for more information. River in NE Peru where it forms the Amazon Amazon, Port. Amazonas (ämäzō`nəs), world's second longest river, c.
..... Click the link for more information. River; some consider the Marañón to be the authentic headwater of the Amazon, but an expedition in 2000 determined that the headwaters of the Apurímac Apurímac (ap
rē`mäk), river, c...... Click the link for more information. River (a tributary of the Ucayali) are the most distant from the Amazon's mouth. The Marañón is navigable to the Pongo de Manseriche, the gorge in NW Peru through which it flows before reaching the Amazon basin. The Huallaga River is its chief tributary. Pedro de Ursúa, the Spanish explorer, descended the Marañón in 1560.
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