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The Purus River is a major river located in Brazil that flows through the Amazon Basin. It is an important waterway in the region and plays a significant role in the local ecosystem and geography.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Pará
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- RioPurus.jpg
- Length
- 2960
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- Commons category
- Purus River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Solimões
- watershed area
- 365000
- drainage basin
- Amazon basin
- discharge
- 8.400
- native label
- Rio Purus
- basin country
- Peru
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Encyclopedic overview
The Purus River (Portuguese: Rio Purus; Spanish: Río Purús) is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is 371,042 km (143,260 sq mi), and the mean annual discharge is 11,207 m/s (395,800 cu ft/s). The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and the Purús Province (and its conformed Purús District), one of the four provinces of Peru in the Ucayali Region.
Geography
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