Tambo River
The Tambo River is a Peruvian river on the eastern slopes of the Andes. The name only refers to a relatively short section of the waterbody; about 159 km long.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: left headwater of the Ucayali River in Peru
- Also known as: “Río Tambo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lieutenant General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport.
Lieutenant General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport
Aerodrome
Lieutenant General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport is a small regional airport serving the town of Atalaya, in the Ucayali Region of Peru. The town is at the confluence of the Tambo and Ucayali Rivers. Lieutenant General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport is situated 3 km southwest of Tambo River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atalaya.
Atalaya
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Atalaya is a town in the Ucayali Region of Peru. It is the capital of the Atalaya Province and the Raymondi District. It is located where the Tambo and Urubamba Rivers converge to form the Ucayali River.
Tambo 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 Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Tambo River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Tambo”
- Catalan: “Tambo”
- Cebuano: “Río Tambo”
- Chinese: “坦博河”
- Croatian: “Tambo”
- Czech: “Tambo”
- Dutch: “Tambo”
- Esperanto: “Tambo”
- French: “río Tambo”
- French: “Río Tambo”
- German: “Río Tambo”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tambo”
- Japanese: “タンボ川”
- Latvian: “Tambo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tambo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Tambo”
- Norwegian: “Tambo”
- Persian: “رود تامبو”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tambo”
- Quechua: “Tambo mayu”
- Quechua: “Tampu mayu”
- Serbian: “Río Tambo”
- Serbian: “Tambo”
- Serbian: “Тамбо”
- Slovenian: “reka Tambo”
- Slovenian: “Río Tambo”
- Slovenian: “Tambo”
- Spanish: “Rio Tambo”
- Spanish: “Río Tambo”
- Swedish: “Tambo”
- Swedish: “Tambofloden”
- Turkish: “Tambo Nehri”
- Uzbek: “Tambo daryosi (Peru)”
- Uzbek: “Tambo daryosi”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Tambo”
- Welsh: “Afon Tambo”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹامبو دریا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Urubamba River and Cerro Azúl.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tambo River”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.