Marañón

American  

[mah-rah-nyawn] / ˌmɑ rɑˈnyɔn /

noun

1. a river in Peru, flowing N and then E, joining the Ucayali to form the Amazon. 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long.

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Marañón British  

/ maraˈɲɔn /

noun

1. a river in NE Peru, rising in the Andes and flowing northwest into the Ucayali River, forming the Amazon. Length: about 1450 km (900 miles)

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Example Sentences

I give this answer in the same week as the Goldman Prize –– the Nobel of environmental activism –– has been won by the brilliant Peruvian river defender Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for her work using the Rights of Nature to defend the life of the Marañon River in Peru.

From Salon

She and her fellow activists won a landmark legal victory declaring the Marañón River a rights-bearing entity, and secured protections for its ecological integrity.

From Salon

"It's not possible to perform the transplant if the population is not involved," says Jose Luis Escalante, director of transplantation at Gregorio Marañon University Hospital in Madrid.

From BBC

To learn more about plasticity in new dads’ brains, our research groups at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón in Madrid, associated with the BeMother project, collaborated on a new study.

From Scientific American

The government said in a statement communities were blocking the large Maranon river, a key tributary of the Amazon, which was preventing officials from taking water samples and distributing medicines to the affected indigenous communities.

From Reuters