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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On the Rio Japura an Indian shot an arrow through his leg, and O’Brien dropped in the long grass, breaking the arrow short each side of the limb, and in an ensuing long watchful duel 244 presently shot the Indian through the throat.

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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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