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Juruá River

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Juruá River

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Also known as Rio Juruá, Río Yuruá, Rio Jurua

river in Brazil & Peru

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Vinony's link graph records 142 inbound references to Juruá River, and connects out to Amazonas, Brazil and Peru.

The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.

Vinony files it under International rivers of South America, Ramsar sites in Brazil and Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state).

Vinony links it to 50 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Country
Brazil , Peru
Location
Ucayali Region , Peru
Coordinates
10°5′36.4776″S 72°11′56.4576″W / 10.093466000°S 72.199016000°W / -10.093466000; -72.199016000
Elevation
377 m (1,237 ft)
Mouth
Amazon River
Length
2,682.29 km (1,666.70 mi) 3,283 km (2,040 mi)
Basin size
190,573 km (73,581 mi )
Average
(Period: 1979–2015)6,004.1 m /s (212,030 cu ft/s) (Period: 1973–1990)6,600 m /s (230,000 cu ft/s) (Period: 1971–2000)6,662.1 m /s (235,270 cu ft/s)
Progression
Amazon → Atlantic Ocean
River system
Solimões
Left
Môa , Ipixuna
Right
Gregório , Tarauaca , Xerua , Andirá

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Country
Peru
Continent
South America
Image
Rio Jurua, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre.jpg
Length
3100
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tributary
Amônia River
watershed area
224000
drainage basin
Amazon basin
discharge
4765.0
Commons category
Rio Juruá
mouth of the watercourse
Amazon
basin country
Brazil
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Encyclopedic overview

The Juruá River (Portuguese: Rio Juruá [ʒuɾuˈa]; Spanish: Río Yuruá) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River. The Juruá emerges from highlands in east-central Peru, then winds its way through lowlands in Brazil, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression; and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

For most of its length, the river flows through the Purus várzea ecoregion. This is surrounded by the Juruá-Purus moist forests ecoregion. The Juruá rises among the Ucayali highlands, and is navigable and unobstructed for a distance of 1,133 km (704 mi) above its junction with the Amazon. It has a total length of approximately 3,283 km (2,040 mi), and is one of the longest tributaries of the Amazon.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Juruá River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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