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.
Photo: Altiplano, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Peru
- Also known as: “reka Ucayali”, “rio Ucayali”, “Rio Ucayali”, “río Ucayali”, “Ucayali jõgi”, “Река Укајали”, “Укайяли”, and “Укаялі (рака)”
Ucayali River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Loreto, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-4.45291° or 4° 27′ 11″ south
Longitude
-73.4487° or 73° 26′ 55″ west
Elevation
88 metres (289 feet)
Open location code
6778GHW2+RG
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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”
- 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”
- Finnish: “Ucayali”
- Finnish: “Ucayalijoki”
- French: “Río Ucayali”
- French: “rivière Ucayali”
- Galician: “Río Ucayali”
- Georgian: “უკაიალი”
- German: “Río Ucayali”
- German: “Ucayali”
- Greek: “ποταμός Ουκαγιάλι”
- Hebrew: “אוקיאלי”
- Hindi: “उकायाली नदी”
- 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: “Ucayali”
- Quechua: “Ukayali mayu”
- Quechua: “Ukayali”
- Russian: “Укаяли”
- Saterfriesisch: “Río Ucayali”
- Scots: “Ucayali River”
- Serbian: “Ukajali”
- Serbian: “Укајали”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ucayali”
- Slovak: “Ucayali”
- Slovenian: “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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