Mantaro River

The Mantaro River is a long river running through the central region of . Its Quechua name means "great river". The word "Mantaro" may be a word originally from the Asháninka language, who live downstream along the .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: left headwater of the Ene River in Peru
  • Also known as: Río Mantaro

Mantaro River

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
Geo­Names ID
3935429
Wiki­data ID
Q773333
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Satellite Map

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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: Rio Mantaro
  • Spanish: Río Mantaro
  • Swedish: Mantaro
  • Swedish: Mantarofloden
  • Turkish: Mantaro Nehri
  • Vietnamese: Sông Mantaro
  • Welsh: Afon Mantaro

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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 “Mantaro River”. Photo: Krfrantz, CC BY-SA 3.0.