Marañón River
The Marañón River is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m high, it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Peru
- Also known as: “Marañon”, “Río Marañón”, and “Tunguragua”
Marañón River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Marañón River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Río Marañón”
- Arabic: “نهر مارانيون”
- Armenian: “Մարանյոն (գետ)”
- Armenian: “Մարանյոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Marañón”
- Azerbaijani: “Maranon çayı”
- Basque: “Marañon ibaia”
- Basque: “Marañón ibaia”
- Basque: “Marañón”
- Belarusian: “Мараньён”
- Belarusian: “Мараньнён”
- Bengali: “মারানিয়োন নদী”
- Bosnian: “Marañón”
- Bulgarian: “Мараньон”
- Catalan: “Marañon”
- Catalan: “riu Marañón”
- Catalan: “Riu Marañón”
- Cebuano: “Río Marañón”
- Chinese: “馬拉尼翁河”
- Chinese: “马拉尼翁河”
- Chuvash: “Мараньон”
- Croatian: “Marañón”
- Czech: “Maraňon”
- Czech: “Maraňón”
- Czech: “Marañón”
- Dutch: “Maranón”
- Dutch: “Marañón”
- Dutch: “Rio Maranon”
- Dutch: “Río Marañón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر مارانيون”
- Esperanto: “Maranjono”
- Esperanto: “Marañón”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Marajono”
- Estonian: “Marañón”
- Estonian: “Maranoni jõgi”
- Estonian: “Marañóni jõgi”
- Finnish: “Maranon”
- Finnish: “Marañón”
- French: “Marañon”
- French: “Rio Maranon”
- French: “río Marañón”
- French: “Río Marañón”
- French: “rivière Marañón”
- Galician: “Río Marañón”
- Georgian: “მარანიონი”
- German: “Maranon”
- German: “Marañón”
- German: “Río Marañón”
- Hebrew: “מרניון”
- Iloko: “Karayan Maranon”
- Iloko: “Karayan Marañón”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Marañón”
- Irish: “Abhainn Marañón”
- Italian: “Marañón”
- Japanese: “マラニョン川”
- Kazakh: “Мараньон”
- Korean: “마라뇬강”
- Latin: “Maranonius”
- Latvian: “Maranjona”
- Lithuanian: “Maranjonas”
- Lombard: “Marañón”
- Macedonian: “Марањон”
- Malayalam: “മരാനോൺ നദി”
- Mazanderani: “مارانیون”
- Mingrelian: “მარანიონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maranon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marañon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marañón”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maranon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marañón”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maranonelva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marañónelva”
- Norwegian: “Marañón”
- Ossetian: “Мараньон”
- Persian: “رود مارانیون”
- Polish: “Maranon”
- Polish: “Marañon”
- Polish: “Marañón”
- Portuguese: “Marañón”
- Portuguese: “Rio Maranhão”
- Portuguese: “rio Marañón”
- Quechua: “Awriq mayu”
- Quechua: “Marañón mayu”
- Quechua: “Marañun mayu”
- Romanian: “Râul Marañón”
- Russian: “Амазонская река”
- Russian: “Мараньон”
- Scots: “Marañón River”
- Serbian: “Maranjon”
- Serbian: “Марањон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marañón”
- Slovak: “Maraňon”
- Slovak: “Marañón”
- Slovenian: “Marañón”
- Slovenian: “reka Marañón”
- Spanish: “Cuenca del Marañón”
- Spanish: “Marañón”
- Spanish: “Rio Maranon”
- Spanish: “Rio Maranón”
- Spanish: “Rio Marañon”
- Spanish: “Río Maranon”
- Spanish: “Río Maranón”
- Spanish: “Río Marañon”
- Spanish: “río Marañón”
- Spanish: “Río Marañón”
- Swedish: “Marañón”
- Swedish: “Marañonfloden”
- Swedish: “Marañónfloden”
- Turkish: “Marañón Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Мараньйон”
- Venetian: “Fiume Marañón”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Maranon”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Marañón”
- Welsh: “Afon Maranon”
- Welsh: “Afon Marañón”
- Welsh: “Maranon”
- Welsh: “Marañón”
- Western Frisian: “Marañón (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Marañón”
- Western Panjabi: “مارانون دریا”
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