Ucayali River
The Ucayali River is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about 110 km north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Altiplano, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Peru
- Also known as: “Río Ucayali” and “Ucayali”
Ucayali River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Loreto, Peru, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Ucayali River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Río Ucayali”
- Arabic: “نهر أوكايالي”
- Armenian: “Ուկայալի (գետ)”
- Armenian: “Ուկայալի”
- Asturian: “Ríu Ucayali”
- Basque: “Ucayali ibaia”
- Basque: “Ucayali”
- Belarusian: “Укаялі (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Укаялі”
- Bengali: “উকায়ালি নদী”
- Bosnian: “Ucayali (rijeka)”
- Bosnian: “Ucayali”
- Bulgarian: “Укаяли (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Укаяли”
- Catalan: “riu Ucayali”
- Catalan: “Riu Ucayali”
- Cebuano: “Río Ucayali”
- Chinese: “乌卡亚利河”
- Chinese: “烏卡亞利河”
- Chuvash: “Укаяли”
- Croatian: “Ucayali”
- Czech: “Ucayali”
- Danish: “Ucayali”
- Dutch: “Ucayali”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اوكايالى”
- Esperanto: “Ukajalo”
- Estonian: “Ucayali jõgi”
- Estonian: “Ucayali”
- Finnish: “Ucayali”
- Finnish: “Ucayalijoki”
- French: “Rio Ucayali”
- French: “río Ucayali”
- French: “Río Ucayali”
- French: “rivière Ucayali”
- Galician: “Río Ucayali”
- Georgian: “უკაიალი”
- German: “Rio Ucayali”
- German: “Río Ucayali”
- German: “Ucayali”
- Greek: “ποταμός Ουκαγιάλι”
- Hebrew: “אוקיאלי”
- Hungarian: “Ucayali”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Ucayali”
- Irish: “Abhainn Ucayali”
- Italian: “Ucayali”
- Japanese: “ウカヤリ川”
- Kazakh: “Укаяли”
- Kirghiz: “Укаяли”
- Korean: “우카얄리강”
- Latin: “Ucayali”
- Latvian: “Ukajali”
- Lithuanian: “Ukajalis”
- Malayalam: “ഉകായാലി നദി”
- Mingrelian: “უკაიალი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ucayali”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ucayali”
- Norwegian: “Ucayali”
- Ossetian: “Укаяли”
- Persian: “رود اوکایالی”
- Polish: “Ukajali”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ucaiáli”
- Portuguese: “rio Ucayali”
- Portuguese: “Ucayali”
- Quechua: “Río Ucayali”
- Quechua: “Ucayali”
- Quechua: “Ukayali mayu”
- Quechua: “Ukayali”
- Russian: “Укайяли”
- Russian: “Укаяли”
- Saterfriesisch: “Río Ucayali”
- Scots: “Ucayali River”
- Serbian: “Río Ucayali”
- Serbian: “Ucayali”
- Serbian: “Ukajali”
- Serbian: “Река Укајали”
- Serbian: “Укајали”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ucayali”
- Slovak: “Ucayali”
- Slovenian: “reka Ucayali”
- Slovenian: “Río Ucayali”
- Slovenian: “Ucayali”
- Spanish: “río Ucayali”
- Spanish: “Río Ucayali”
- Spanish: “Ucayali”
- Swedish: “Ucayali”
- Telugu: “యుకాయాలి నది”
- Turkish: “Ucayali Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Укаялі”
- Venetian: “Fiume Ucayali”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Ucayali”
- Welsh: “Afon Ucayali”
- Western Panjabi: “اوکیالی دریا”
- Wu Chinese: “乌卡亚利河”
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