Japurá

American  

[zhah-poo-rah] / ˌʒɑ pʊˈrɑ /

noun

1. a river flowing E from the Andes in SW Colombia through NW Brazil to the Amazon. 1,750 miles (2,820 km) long.

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Japurá British  

/ ʒapuˈra /

noun

1. Spanish name: Yapurá.  a river in NW South America, rising in SW Colombia and flowing southeast across Colombia and Brazil to join the Amazon near Tefé: known as the Caquetá in Colombia. Length: about 2800 km (1750 miles)

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Example Sentences

CURETUS, a tribe of South American Indians, inhabiting the country between the rivers of Japura and Uaup�s, north-western Brazil.

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He said he had brought out a shallow-draught river boat, and he was taking her up the Rio Japura.

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He was going to take that boat up the Japura, and you’d have thought it was above Boulter’s Lock.

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It proved that they had strayed from the Solimoës by its left or northern bank, and must now be somewhere among the mouths of the great river Japura.

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He knew that in that direction, in the vast delta formed by the unnumbered branches of the Japura, the Gapo was of great width, extending far back from the banks of this remarkable river, and dry land in that direction might be at the greatest distance.

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