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Huallaga

American  
[wuh-yah-guh, wah-yah-gah] / wəˈyɑ gə, wɑˈyɑ gɑ /

noun

  1. a river in N central Peru, flowing N to the Marañón River: part of the Amazon system. 700 miles (1,126 km) long.


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State Department bulldozers are cutting a landing strip on the banks of the Huallaga River 300 miles northeast of Lima.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the Upper Huallaga Valley in Peru can be considered one of the ends of the earth -- and as an area of mostly trackless jungle, it qualifies -- the President was speaking literally.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambassador Alexander Watson and Peruvian officials agreed to build a secure base for Snowcap activities in the Upper Huallaga.

From Time Magazine Archive

A smaller number of armed guerrillas are also active in another coca-growing region, the Upper Huallaga Valley.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are the first heights which we perceived after having left Xeberos and the mouth of the Huallaga.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von