Purus River
The Purus River is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is 371,042 km/s. The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and the Purús Province, one of the four provinces of Peru in the Ucayali Region.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Stream
- Description: South American river
- Also known as“Purus”“Rio Purus”“River Purus”
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Latitude
-1.89477° or 1° 53′ 41″ south
Longitude
-53.52268° or 53° 31′ 22″ west
Open location code
68C84F4G+3W
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Purus River” goes by many names.
Rio PurusAfrikaans
ريو بوروسArabic
نهر بوروسArabic
Ríu PurúsAsturian
Purus çayıAzerbaijani
PurusBasque
ПурусBelarusian
পুরুস নদীBengali
ПурусBulgarian
Рио ПурусBulgarian
Riu PurusCatalan
Rio PurusCebuano
普魯斯河Chinese
ПурусChuvash
PurusCroatian
PurusCzech
PurusDanish
PurusDutch
Rio PurúsDutch
نهر بوروسEgyptian Arabic
PuruzoEsperanto
PurusEstonian
Purusi jõgiEstonian
PurusFinnish
Rio PurusFinnish
פורוסHebrew
PurusHungarian
Abhainn PurusIrish
PurusItalian
Río PurúsItalian
プルス川Japanese
ПурусKazakh
ПурусKirghiz
푸루스강Korean
PurusLatin
PurusaLatvian
PurusasLithuanian
ПурусMacedonian
Rio PurusMalagasy
پوروسMazanderani
პურუსიMingrelian
PurusNorwegian
PurusNorwegian Bokmål
ПурусOssetian
رود پوروسPersian
PurúsPolish
Rio PurusPolish
Purus mayuQuechua
Râul PurusRomanian
ПурусRussian
Рио-ПурусRussian
Rio PurusSaterfriesisch
Purus RiverScots
Rio PurusSerbian
ПурусSerbian
PurusSerbo-Croatian
PurusSlovak
PurúsSlovenian
reka PurúsSlovenian
Río PurúsSlovenian
PurusSwedish
Rio PurusSwedish
Purus NehriTurkish
ПурусUkrainian
Fiume PurúsVenetian
PurusVietnamese
Sông PurusVietnamese
Afon PurusWelsh
پوروس دریاWestern Panjabi
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