Vaupés River
Vaupés River is a tributary of the Rio Negro in South America. It rises in the Vaupes Department of Colombia, flowing east through Vaupés Department. It forms part of the international border between the Vaupés department of Colombia and the Amazonas state of Brazil.
- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Rio Negro in South America.
- Also known as: “Rio Caiari”, “Rio Caiary”, “Rio Cayari”, “Rio Uaapés”, “Rio Uapes”, “Rio Uapés”, “Rio Uaupes”, “rio Uaupés”, “Rio Vaupes”, “Uaupes”, “Uaupés”, “Vaupes”, “Vaupes River”, and “ヴァウペス川”
Vaupés River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Brazil, South America
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Latitude
0.09372° or 0° 5′ 37″ north
Longitude
-67.34038° or 67° 20′ 25″ west
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
Open location code
67GJ3MV5+FR
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Vaupés River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Vaupés”
- Basque: “Vaupés”
- Breton: “Stêr Vaupés”
- Catalan: “riu Vaupés”
- Catalan: “Riu Vaupés”
- Cebuano: “Río Vaupés”
- Chinese: “沃佩斯河”
- Croatian: “Vaupés (rijeka)”
- Croatian: “Vaupés”
- Dutch: “Vaupés River”
- French: “río Vaupés”
- French: “Río Vaupés”
- Galician: “río Vaupés”
- German: “Río Vaupés”
- Irish: “Abhainn Vaupés”
- Italian: “Rio Vaupés”
- Japanese: “バウペス川”
- Korean: “바우페스강”
- Lithuanian: “Vaupesas”
- Mingrelian: “ვაუპესი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ვაუპესი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaupés”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vaupés”
- Norwegian: “Vaupés”
- Persian: “رود وائوپس”
- Polish: “Río Vaupés”
- Portuguese: “Rio Uaupés”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaupés”
- South Azerbaijani: “ووپس چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Vaupés”
- Spanish: “Vaupés”
- Swedish: “Río Vaupés”
- Turkish: “Vaupés Nehri”
- Turkish: “Vaupés”
- Ukrainian: “Ваупес”
- Venetian: “Fiume Vaupés”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Vaupés”
- Vietnamese: “Vaupés River”
- Welsh: “Afon Vaupés”
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