Caqueta River
The Japurá River or Caquetá River is a 2,820 kilometres long river in the Amazon basin. It rises in Colombia and flows eastward through Brazil to join the Amazon River.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in South America
- Also known as: “Afon Caquetá”, “Caqueta”, “Caqueta-elva”, “Japura jõgi”, “Japurá jõgi”, “Japura River”, “Japurá River”, “Kaketa”, “Rio Caqueta”, “Rio Caquetá”, “Río Caqueta”, “Rio Japura”, “Río Japurá”, “Rio Yapura”, “Río Yapura”, “Río Yapurá”, “Rio Yupura”, “Riu Caquetà”, “Riu Japurá”, “Riu Yapura”, “Sông Japura”, “Yapura”, “Ζαπουρά”, “Κακετά”, “Ρίο Κακετά”, “Какета”, “Хапура”, “Япура”, and “نهر كاكيتا”
Caqueta River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-3.13333° or 3° 8′ south
Longitude
-64.76667° or 64° 46′ west
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
678QV68M+M8
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Caqueta River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rio Japurá”
- Arabic: “نهر جابورا”
- Armenian: “Ժապուրա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Caquetá”
- Azerbaijani: “Japura çayı”
- Basque: “Caquetá”
- Belarusian: “Жапура”
- Bulgarian: “Жапура”
- Catalan: “riu Caquetá”
- Catalan: “Riu Caquetá”
- Cebuano: “Japura River”
- Chinese: “雅普拉河”
- Chuvash: “Жапура”
- Croatian: “Japura”
- Croatian: “Japurá”
- Czech: “Japurá”
- Dutch: “Japurá”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر جابورا”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Kaketao”
- Estonian: “Japurá”
- Finnish: “Japurá”
- French: “río Caquetá”
- French: “Río Caquetá”
- Galician: “Río Caquetá”
- Georgian: “ჟაპურა”
- German: “Rio Japurá”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Ζαπουρά”
- Hebrew: “ז’פורה”
- Hindi: “जापरा नदी”
- Hungarian: “Caquetá”
- Irish: “Abhainn Japurá”
- Italian: “Caquetá”
- Japanese: “ジャプラー川”
- Japanese: “ジャプラ川”
- Korean: “자푸라강”
- Latin: “Iapura”
- Latvian: “Žapura”
- Lithuanian: “Žapūra”
- Macedonian: “Жапура”
- Mazanderani: “ژاپورا”
- Mingrelian: “ჟაპურა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Japurá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caquetá-elva”
- Norwegian: “Japurá”
- Ossetian: “Жапура”
- Persian: “رود جاپورا”
- Polish: “Japurá”
- Portuguese: “Rio Japurá”
- Russian: “Жапура”
- Saterfriesisch: “Japurá”
- Serbian: “Žapura”
- Serbian: “Жапура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Japura”
- South Azerbaijani: “ژاپورا چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Caqueiá”
- Spanish: “Río Caquetá”
- Spanish: “Rio Japurá”
- Spanish: “Rio Yapurá”
- Swedish: “Japura River”
- Swedish: “Japuráfloden”
- Turkish: “Japurá Nehri”
- Turkish: “Rio Japurá”
- Ukrainian: “Жапура”
- Venetian: “Fiume Caquetá”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Japurá”
- Welsh: “Afon Japurá”
- Western Panjabi: “جاپورا دریا”
Localities in the Area
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