Uaupés

American  

[wou-pes] / waʊˈpɛs /

Or Waupés

noun

1. a river in S central Colombia, where it rises and is called the Vaupes, flowing in NW Brazil E and SE to the Rio Negro River. 500 miles (805 km) long.

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Example Sentences

The Uaupes in the Amazons incinerate a corpse a month after death, pound up the ashes, and mix them with their fermented drink.

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Tynjur, the, 74 Tyrol, the, brachycephaly in, 512 Uaupés, the, 348 Ude language, 541 Ugrian Finns, the, 317 sqq.,

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The river Uaupés is a tributary of the Upper Rio Negro, and a voyage up this stream brought us into singular regions.

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Among the tribes of the Uaupés the men have the hair carefully parted and combed on each side, and tied in a queue behind.

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Perhaps the most eventful and memorable journey during this period was the exploration of the Uaupés River, of which Wallace wrote nearly sixty years later: "So far as I have heard, no English traveller has to this day ascended the Uaupés River so far as I did, and no collector has stayed at any time at Javita, or has even passed through it."

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