Juruá River
The Juruá River is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River. The Juruá emerges from highlands in east-central Peru, then winds its way through lowlands in Brazil, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Brazil & Peru
- Also known as: “Rio Jurua”, “Rio Juruá”, and “Río Yuruá”
Juruá River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Brazil, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Juruá River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rio Juruá”
- Arabic: “ريو جوروا”
- Arabic: “نهر جوروا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Juruá”
- Azerbaijani: “Jurua çayı”
- Basque: “Juruá”
- Belarusian: “Журуа”
- Belarusian: “Рака Журуа”
- Bulgarian: “Журуа”
- Catalan: “Juruá”
- Catalan: “Riu Jurua”
- Catalan: “riu Juruá”
- Catalan: “Riu Juruá”
- Catalan: “Riu Yurúa”
- Cebuano: “Río Yuruá”
- Chinese: “茹魯阿河”
- Chinese: “茹鲁阿河”
- Chuvash: “Журуа”
- Croatian: “Juruá (rijeka)”
- Croatian: “Juruá”
- Czech: “Jurua”
- Czech: “Juruá”
- Dutch: “Jurua”
- Dutch: “Juruá”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر جوروا”
- Esperanto: “Juruao”
- Estonian: “Jurua jõgi”
- Estonian: “Juruá jõgi”
- Estonian: “Jurua”
- Finnish: “Juruá”
- French: “Juruá”
- French: “Rio Jurua”
- French: “rio Juruá”
- French: “Rio Juruá”
- Georgian: “ჟურუა”
- German: “Rio Jurua”
- German: “Rio Juruá”
- German: “Río Yuruá”
- Hebrew: “ז’ורואה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Jurua”
- Italian: “Jurua”
- Italian: “Juruá”
- Japanese: “ジュルアー川”
- Japanese: “ジュルア川”
- Kazakh: “Jwrwa”
- Kazakh: “Жаруа өзені”
- Kazakh: “Журуа өзені”
- Kazakh: “Журуа”
- Kazakh: “جۋرۋا”
- Kirghiz: “Журуа”
- Latin: “Iuruensis fluvius”
- Latvian: “Žurua”
- Lithuanian: “Žurua”
- Luxembourgish: “Juruá”
- Malagasy: “Rio Juruá”
- Mazanderani: “جوروا”
- Mingrelian: “ჟურუა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jurua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Juruá”
- Norwegian: “Juruá”
- Persian: “رود ژوروا”
- Persian: “رودخانه جوروا”
- Polish: “Jurua”
- Polish: “Juruá”
- Portuguese: “Rio Juruá”
- Quechua: “Juruá mayu”
- Quechua: “Yuruá mayu”
- Russian: “Журуа”
- Saterfriesisch: “Rio Juruá”
- Serbian: “Žurua”
- Serbian: “Журуа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Juruá”
- Spanish: “Rio Jurua”
- Spanish: “Rio Juruá”
- Spanish: “Río Jurua”
- Spanish: “Río Juruá”
- Spanish: “Rio Yurua”
- Spanish: “Rio Yuruá”
- Spanish: “Rio Yurúa”
- Spanish: “Río Yurua”
- Spanish: “Río Yuruá”
- Spanish: “Río Yurúa”
- Spanish: “Yurua”
- Spanish: “Yurúa”
- Swedish: “Juruá”
- Turkish: “Juruá Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Журуа”
- Uzbek: “Jurua”
- Venetian: “Fiume Juruá”
- Vietnamese: “Juruá”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Jurua”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Juruá”
- Welsh: “Afon Jurua”
- Western Panjabi: “جوروا دریا”
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