Mantaro River
The Mantaro River is a long river running through the central region of Peru. Its Quechua name means "great river". The word "Mantaro" may be a word originally from the Asháninka language, who live downstream along the Ene River.
Mantaro River
- Type: Stream
- Description: left headwater of the Ene River in Peru
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Junín Region, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-12.26899° or 12° 16′ 8″ south
Longitude
-73.98577° or 73° 59′ 9″ west
Elevation
443 metres (1,453 feet)
Open location code
57V8P2J7+CM
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Mantaro River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Mantaro”
- Catalan: “Mantaro”
- Cebuano: “Río Mantaro”
- Chinese: “曼塔羅河”
- Chuvash: “Мантаро”
- Croatian: “Mantaro”
- Czech: “Mantaro”
- Danish: “Mantaro-floden”
- Dutch: “Mantaro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر مانتارو”
- French: “río Mantaro”
- French: “Río Mantaro”
- Georgian: “მანტარო”
- German: “Río Mantaro”
- Hungarian: “Mantaro”
- Irish: “Abhainn Mantaro”
- Japanese: “マンタロ川”
- Latvian: “Mantaro”
- Lithuanian: “Mantaras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mantaro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mantaro”
- Norwegian: “Mantaro”
- Panjabi: “ਮੰਤਾਰੋ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رودخانه مانتارو”
- Polish: “Mantaro”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mantaro”
- Quechua: “Mantaru mayu”
- Russian: “Мантаро”
- Serbian: “Мантаро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mantaro (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mantaro”
- Slovenian: “Mantanaro”
- Spanish: “Río Mantaro”
- Swedish: “Mantaro”
- Swedish: “Mantarofloden”
- Turkish: “Mantaro Nehri”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Mantaro”
- Welsh: “Afon Mantaro”
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