Javari

American  

[zhah-vuh-ree] / ˌʒɑ vəˈri /

Or Javary

noun

1. a river in E South America, flowing NE from Peru to the upper Amazon, forming part of the boundary between Peru and Brazil. 650 miles (1,045 km) long.

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Javari British  

/ ʒavaˈri /

noun

1. Spanish name: Yavarí.  a river in South America, flowing northeast as part of the border between Peru and Brazil to join the Amazon. Length: about 1050 km (650 miles)

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Example Sentences

Phillips and Pereira vanished on June 5, 2022 on a trip to the remote Javari Valley near the border with Peru.

From Reuters • Jun. 5, 2023

According to the report by TV Globo's Fantástico programme, Colombian national Rubén Villar ran an illegal fishing racket in the Javari Valley, a remote area near Brazil's border with Peru and Colombia.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2023

The line of wooden houses here marks a boundary — between the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon, and the non-Indigenous world.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Phillips, a freelance journalist who wrote for outlets including the British newspaper The Guardian and the Washington Post, was on a reporting trip with Pereira in the Amazon rainforest’s Javari Valley.

From Reuters • May 20, 2023

Derek and his eldest son pushed the bed under a small plastic skylight in the ceiling, and Javari came back with a metal bat.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz