Apurímac

American  

[ah-poo-ree-mahk] / ˌɑ puˈri mɑk /

noun

1. a river flowing NW from S Peru to the Ucayali River. about 550 miles (885 km) long.

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Apurimac British  

/ ˌæpuːˈriːmæk /

noun

1. a river in S Peru, rising in the Andes and flowing northwest into the Urubamba River. Length: about 885 km (550 miles)

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Example Sentences

Usually communities in the Cusco region of Peru come together to replace the Inca rope bridge that crosses the Apurimac River each year - but they couldn't last year due to the pandemic.

From BBC

"But now it is like an answer to the pandemic itself. From the depths of the Peruvian Andean identity, this bridge is strung up across the Apurimac basin and we can tell the world that we are coming out if this little by little."

From Reuters

Next was hiking around Machu Picchu, followed by three days of water rafting on the Apurimac River, including through class 4 and 5 rapids with names like “Space Odyssey” and “The Labyrinth.”

From Washington Post

The main thing we have to do with drugs is to give the people in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac region — that’s the major drug area — alternatives.

From Washington Post

But residents in the highland region of Apurimac have said they were not consulted on the revisions and have protested pollution from hundreds of trucks carrying copper concentrates on unpaved roads near their communities every day.

From Reuters