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…
- Stream
- Description: river in Peru
- Also known as“Marañon”“Río Marañón”“Tunguragua”
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Latitude
-4.42333° or 4° 25′ 24″ south
Longitude
-73.4542° or 73° 27′ 15″ west
Open location code
6778HGGW+M8
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Marañón River” goes by many names.
Río MarañónAfrikaans
نهر مارانيونArabic
ՄարանյոնArmenian
Մարանյոն (գետ)Armenian
Ríu MarañónAsturian
Maranon çayıAzerbaijani
MarañónBasque
Marañón ibaiaBasque
МараньёнBelarusian
МараньнёнBelarusian
মারানিয়োন নদীBengali
MarañónBosnian
МараньонBulgarian
MarañonCatalan
Riu MarañónCatalan
Río MarañónCebuano
馬拉尼翁河Chinese
马拉尼翁河Chinese
МараньонChuvash
MarañónCroatian
MarañónCzech
MarañónDutch
Río MarañónDutch
نهر مارانيونEgyptian Arabic
MaranjonoEsperanto
MarañónEsperanto
Rivero MarajonoEsperanto
MarañónEstonian
Marañóni jõgiEstonian
MarañónFinnish
Río MarañónGalician
მარანიონიGeorgian
מרניוןHebrew
Karayan MarañónIloko
Sungai MarañónIndonesian
Abhainn MarañónIrish
MarañónItalian
マラニョン川Japanese
МараньонKazakh
마라뇬강Korean
MaranoniusLatin
MaranjonaLatvian
MaranjonasLithuanian
MarañónLombard
МарањонMacedonian
മരാനോൺ നദിMalayalam
مارانیونMazanderani
მარანიონიMingrelian
MarañónNorwegian
MarañónNorwegian Bokmål
MarañónNorwegian Nynorsk
MarañónelvaNorwegian Nynorsk
МараньонOssetian
رود مارانیونPersian
MarañónPolish
Awriq mayuQuechua
Marañón mayuQuechua
Marañun mayuQuechua
Râul MarañónRomanian
Амазонская рекаRussian
МараньонRussian
Marañón RiverScots
MaranjonSerbian
МарањонSerbian
MarañónSerbo-Croatian
MarañónSlovak
MarañónSlovenian
reka MarañónSlovenian
MarañónSwedish
MarañónflodenSwedish
Marañón NehriTurkish
МараньйонUkrainian
Fiume MarañónVenetian
Sông MarañónVietnamese
Afon MarañónWelsh
MarañónWelsh
MarañónWestern Frisian
Marañón (rivier)Western Frisian
مارانون دریاWestern Panjabi
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