South America
Argentina

Parana River

The Paraná River is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some 4,880 kilometres. Among South American rivers, it is second in length only to the Amazon River.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in South America
  • Also known as: “Parana”, “Paraná River”, and “Río Alto Paraná”

Parana River

Latitude
-33.72823° or 33° 43′ 42″ south
Longitude
-59.3073° or 59° 18′ 26″ west
Open location code
48R27MCV+P3
Geo­Names ID
3430144
Wiki­data ID
Q127892
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Parana River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rio Parana”
  • Afrikaans: “Río Paraná”
  • Arabic: “نهر بارانا”
  • Armenian: “Պարանա”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Paraná”
  • Azerbaijani: “Parana çayı”
  • Bashkir: “Парана”
  • Basque: “Parana”
  • Basque: “Paraná”
  • Belarusian: “Парана”
  • Bhojpuri: “पराना नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Paraná”
  • Breton: “Paraná”
  • Breton: “Stêr Paraná”
  • Bulgarian: “Парана”
  • Catalan: “Paranà”
  • Catalan: “riu Paraná”
  • Catalan: “Riu Paraná”
  • Cebuano: “Rio Paraná”
  • Chinese: “Paraná Hô”
  • Chinese: “巴拉那河”
  • Chuvash: “Парана”
  • Croatian: “Parana”
  • Croatian: “Paraná”
  • Czech: “Paraná”
  • Danish: “Parana”
  • Danish: “Paraná”
  • Danish: “Rio Paraná”
  • Dutch: “Paraná”
  • Dutch: “Rio Paraná”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بارانا”
  • Esperanto: “Paraná”
  • Esperanto: “Paranao”
  • Esperanto: “Parano”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Paraná”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Paranao”
  • Estonian: “Parana jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Paraná jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Parana Naddi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Paraná Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Paraná”
  • French: “fleuve Parana”
  • French: “Rio Parana”
  • French: “Rio Paraná”
  • French: “Río Paraná”
  • French: “rivière Paraná”
  • Galician: “Río Paraná”
  • Georgian: “პარანა”
  • German: “Paraná”
  • German: “Rio Parana”
  • German: “Rio Paraná”
  • German: “Río Paraná”
  • Greek: “Παρανά”
  • Guarani: “Parana”
  • Guarani: “Paraná”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Parana”
  • Hebrew: “פארנה”
  • Hebrew: “פרנה”
  • Hindi: “पराना नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Paraná”
  • Icelandic: “Paraná-fljót”
  • Ido: “Fluvio Paraná”
  • Ido: “Paraná fluvio”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Paraná”
  • Irish: “Paraná”
  • Italian: “Fiume Paraná”
  • Italian: “Paraná”
  • Italian: “Paranà”
  • Italian: “Río Paraná”
  • Japanese: “パラナ川”
  • Kazakh: “Parana”
  • Kazakh: “Парана”
  • Kazakh: “پارانا”
  • Korean: “파라나강”
  • Latin: “Parana flumen”
  • Latin: “Parana”
  • Latvian: “Parana”
  • Lithuanian: “Parana”
  • Lombard: “Paranà”
  • Macedonian: “Парана (река)”
  • Macedonian: “Парана”
  • Malagasy: “Paraná (renirano)”
  • Malagasy: “Paraná”
  • Malay: “Sungai Paraná”
  • Malayalam: “പരാന നദി”
  • Malayalam: “പരാന”
  • Marathi: “पाराना नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “پارانا درکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paraná Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “პარანა”
  • Mongolian: “Парана мөрөн”
  • Northern Frisian: “Río Paraná”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paraná”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paranáelva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Paraná”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Paraná”
  • Norwegian: “Paraná”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Paraná”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paraná”
  • Ossetian: “Парана (цæугæдон)”
  • Ossetian: “Парана”
  • Persian: “پارانا”
  • Persian: “رود پارانا”
  • Persian: “رودخانه پارانا”
  • Persian: “رودخانهٔ پارانا”
  • Polish: “Alto Paraná”
  • Polish: “Parana”
  • Polish: “Paraná”
  • Portuguese: “Córrego do Veado”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do rio paraná”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Paraná”
  • Romanian: “Parana”
  • Romanian: “Paraná”
  • Romanian: “Rio Parana”
  • Romanian: “Río Paraná”
  • Russian: “Паранá”
  • Russian: “Парана”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱨᱟᱱᱟ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Scots: “Paraná River”
  • Serbian: “Alto Paraná”
  • Serbian: “Parana”
  • Serbian: “Rio Parana”
  • Serbian: “Rio Paraná”
  • Serbian: “Río Paraná”
  • Serbian: “Алто Парна”
  • Serbian: “Парана”
  • Serbian: “Река Парана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paraná”
  • Slovak: “Parana”
  • Slovak: “Paraná”
  • Slovenian: “Parana”
  • Slovenian: “Paraná”
  • Slovenian: “Rio Parana”
  • Slovenian: “Rio Paraná”
  • Slovenian: “Río Paraná”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پارانا چایی”
  • Spanish: “Parana”
  • Spanish: “Paraná”
  • Spanish: “Rio Parana”
  • Spanish: “Río Paraná”
  • Swahili: “Mto Parana”
  • Swahili: “Mto Paraná”
  • Swahili: “Parana”
  • Swedish: “Pampas”
  • Swedish: “Paraná”
  • Swedish: “Paranafloden”
  • Swedish: “Paranáfloden”
  • Swedish: “Rio Paraná”
  • Swedish: “Río Paraná”
  • Tamil: “பரனா ஆறு”
  • Telugu: “పరనా నది”
  • Thai: “Paraná River”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำปารานา”
  • Turkish: “Parana Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Paraná Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Paraná”
  • Turkish: “Rio Paraná”
  • Ukrainian: “Парана”
  • Urdu: “دریائے پارانا”
  • Uzbek: “Parana”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Paraná”
  • Vietnamese: “Parana”
  • Vietnamese: “Paraná”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Parana”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Paraná”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Paraná”
  • Welsh: “Afon Paraná”
  • Welsh: “Afon Paranà”
  • Welsh: “Río Paraná”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے پارانا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴拉那河”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拉那河”
  • “पराना नदी”

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