Beni

[be-nee]

noun

1. a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.

Beni

/ ˈbeni /

noun

1. a river in N Bolivia, rising in the E Cordillera of the Andes and flowing north to the Marmoré River. Length: over 1600 km (1000 miles)

Example Sentences

In September 2021, a team of specialists traveled to one of the least-documented areas of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltación in the department of Beni.

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The survivors - three women, a child and the 29-year-old pilot - were rescued in "excellent condition", Wilson Avila, director of the Beni Department's emergency operations centre, said.

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A search and rescue mission was launched on Thursday after the plane disappeared from the radar of the Beni Department in central Bolivia.

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Ruben Torres, Director of the Beni Region Health Department, said that there had been "a lot of speculation about the case" and "many theories" after the plane went missing.

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Idengo's death has sparked fresh fears in North Kivu as protesters took to the streets of Beni, where he was born, to demand justice.

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