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…
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Peru
- Also known as: “Afon Maranon”, “Cuenca del Marañón”, “Karayan Maranon”, “Maranon”, “Maranón”, “Maraňón”, “Marañon”, “Marañon ibaia”, “Marañón mayu”, “Maranonelva”, “Marañónelva”, “Marañonfloden”, “Marañónfloden”, “Maranoni jõgi”, “reka Marañón”, “Rio Maranon”, “Rio Maranón”, “Rio Marañon”, “rio Marañón”, “Río Maranon”, “Río Maranón”, “Río Marañon”, “río Marañón”, “Rivero Marajono”, “Sông Maranon”, “Tunguragua”, and “Амазонская река”
Marañón River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.42333° or 4° 25′ 24″ south
Longitude
-73.4542° or 73° 27′ 15″ west
Elevation
88 metres (289 feet)
Open location code
6778HGGW+M8
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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: “Marañón ibaia”
- Basque: “Marañón”
- Belarusian: “Мараньён”
- Belarusian: “Мараньнён”
- Bengali: “মারানিয়োন নদী”
- Bosnian: “Marañón”
- Bulgarian: “Мараньон”
- 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: “Marañón”
- Dutch: “Marañón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر مارانيون”
- Esperanto: “Maranjono”
- Estonian: “Marañón”
- Estonian: “Marañóni jõgi”
- Finnish: “Marañón”
- French: “Río Marañón”
- French: “rivière Marañón”
- Galician: “Río Marañón”
- Georgian: “მარანიონი”
- German: “Marañón”
- Hebrew: “מרניון”
- 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: “Marañón”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marañón”
- Norwegian: “Marañón”
- Ossetian: “Мараньон”
- Persian: “رود مارانیون”
- Polish: “Marañón”
- Portuguese: “Marañón”
- Portuguese: “Rio Maranhão”
- Quechua: “Awriq mayu”
- Quechua: “Marañun mayu”
- Romanian: “Râul Marañón”
- Russian: “Мараньон”
- Scots: “Marañón River”
- Serbian: “Maranjon”
- Serbian: “Марањон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marañón”
- Slovak: “Maraňon”
- Slovak: “Marañón”
- Slovenian: “Marañón”
- Spanish: “Marañón”
- Spanish: “Río Marañón”
- Swedish: “Marañón”
- Turkish: “Marañón Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Мараньйон”
- Venetian: “Fiume Marañón”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Marañón”
- Welsh: “Afon Marañón”
- Western Frisian: “Marañón (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Marañón”
- Western Panjabi: “مارانون دریا”
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