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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Brazil
- Also known as: “Rio Purus”
Purus River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Pará, North, Brazil, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Purus River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rio Purus”
- Arabic: “ريو بوروس”
- Arabic: “نهر بوروس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Purús”
- Azerbaijani: “Purus çayı”
- Basque: “Purus”
- Belarusian: “Пурус”
- Belarusian: “Рака Пурус”
- Bengali: “পুরুস নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Пурус”
- Bulgarian: “Рио Пурус”
- Catalan: “riu Purus”
- Catalan: “Riu Purus”
- Cebuano: “Rio Purus”
- Chinese: “普魯斯河”
- Chuvash: “Пурус”
- Croatian: “Purus”
- Czech: “Purus”
- Dutch: “Purus”
- Dutch: “Rio Purus”
- Dutch: “Rio Purús”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بوروس”
- Esperanto: “Puruzo”
- Estonian: “Purus”
- Estonian: “Purusi jõgi”
- Finnish: “Purus”
- Finnish: “Rio Purus”
- French: “Purus”
- French: “Rio Puru”
- French: “rio Purus”
- French: “Rio Purus”
- French: “Rio Purús”
- French: “Río Purus”
- French: “Río Purús”
- German: “Rio Purus”
- German: “Río Purus”
- German: “Río Purús”
- Hebrew: “פורוס”
- Hungarian: “Purus”
- Irish: “Abhainn Purus”
- Italian: “Purus”
- Italian: “Rio Purus”
- Italian: “Río Purús”
- Japanese: “プルス川”
- Kazakh: “Пурус”
- Kirghiz: “Пурус”
- Korean: “푸루스강”
- Latin: “Purus”
- Latvian: “Purusa”
- Lithuanian: “Purusas”
- Macedonian: “Пурус”
- Malagasy: “Rio Purus”
- Mazanderani: “پوروس”
- Mingrelian: “პურუსი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Purus”
- Norwegian: “Purus”
- Ossetian: “Пурус”
- Persian: “رود پوروس”
- Polish: “Purus”
- Polish: “Purús”
- Polish: “Rio Purus”
- Portuguese: “Purus”
- Portuguese: “Rio Purus”
- Quechua: “Purus mayu”
- Russian: “Пурус”
- Russian: “Рио-Пурус”
- Saterfriesisch: “Rio Purus”
- Scots: “Purus River”
- Serbian: “Rio Purus”
- Serbian: “Пурус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Purus”
- Slovak: “Purus”
- Slovenian: “Purus”
- Slovenian: “Purús”
- Slovenian: “reka Purús”
- Slovenian: “Río Purús”
- Spanish: “Purus”
- Spanish: “Purús”
- Spanish: “Rio Purus”
- Spanish: “Rio Purús”
- Spanish: “Río Purus”
- Spanish: “Río Purús”
- Swedish: “Purus”
- Swedish: “Rio Purus”
- Turkish: “Purus Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Пурус”
- Venetian: “Fiume Purús”
- Vietnamese: “Purus”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Purus”
- Welsh: “Afon Purus”
- Western Panjabi: “پوروس دریا”
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