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Rivers in Peru
YearMaps maps 16 rivers in Peru. The full list follows.
How this list is built: Listed alphabetically. A river is listed where its mapped reach lies, so long rivers appear under more than one country. It covers the rivers indexed in YearMaps, drawn from open geospatial data, and is not an exhaustive national register.
- Rivers Listed
- 16
- With Full Profile
- 10
Linked to a detail page
| Name | Type | Also Flows Through |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon River | River | Brazil, Colombia |
| Huallaga | River | — |
| Javari | River | Brazil |
| Juruá | River | Brazil |
| Madre de Dios | River | Bolivia |
| Marañón | River | — |
| Napo | River | Ecuador |
| Ocoña | River | — |
| Pisco | River | — |
| Purús | River | Brazil |
| Putumayo | River | Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador |
| Santa | River | — |
| Santiago | River | Ecuador |
| Tambo | River | — |
| Tumbes | River | Ecuador |
| Ucayali | River | — |
About the Rivers of Peru
The 10 rivers above with an encyclopedia article, in brief. Each name opens the river's full page, with its course on the map.
- Amazon River
- The Amazon River in South America is the largest river in the world by discharge volume of water, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Huallaga
- 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. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Javari
- The Javary River, Javari River or Yavarí River is a 1,184 km tributary of the Amazon that forms the boundary between Brazil and Peru for more than 500 km. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Madre de Dios
- The Madre de Dios River is a river shared by Bolivia and Peru which is homonymous to the Peruvian region it runs through. On Bolivian territory, it receives the Beni River, close to the town of Riberalta, which later joins with the Mamore River to become the Madeira River after the confluence. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Marañón
- The Marañón River is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m high, it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5° 36′ southern latitude; from where it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the jungle Ande in its midcourse, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows into the flat Amazon basin. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Napo
- The Napo River is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the east Andean volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Ocoña
- The Ocoña River is a river located in the Arequipa region in southern Peru. It helped form Peru's deep canyon walls. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Santa
- The Santa River is a river in the South American Andes mountain range in the Ancash Region of northwest central Peru. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Tumbes
- The Tumbes River, is a river in South America. The river's sources are located between Ecuadorian El Oro and Loja provinces. It is the border between El Oro and Loja, and afterwards the border between Loja and the Tumbes Region in Peru. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Ucayali
- The Ucayali River is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about 110 km 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. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Quick Answers
- How many rivers are there in Peru?
- YearMaps lists 16 rivers for Peru. This is the number mapped in the atlas, not an official national count.
- Which rivers of Peru also flow through other countries?
- The Amazon River (also Brazil, Colombia); The Javari (also Brazil); The Juruá (also Brazil); The Madre de Dios (also Bolivia); The Napo (also Ecuador); The Purús (also Brazil); The Putumayo (also Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador); The Santiago (also Ecuador), and 1 more in the table above.