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Urubamba

American  
[oo-roo-vahm-bah, oor-uh-bahm-buh] / ˌu ruˈvɑm bɑ, ˌʊər əˈbɑm bə /

noun

  1. a river rising in SE Peru, flowing NW through the Andes Mountains to central Peru to meet the Apurímac River and form the Ucayali River. 450 miles (725 km) long.


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Meanwhile, San Antonio de Torontoy is based slightly further away in the wider Urubamba Province.

From BBC Nov. 23, 2025

Seeking to expand his operations, he began looking for an overland route that would connect the Urubamba River with tributaries of the Brazilian Amazon.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2016

But my night at Rio Sagrado, a hidden hotel on the Urubamba River in the Sacred Valley that’s built to resemble an Andean village, definitely was.

From Forbes Oct. 18, 2014

On the road Hiram Bingham III was a 35-year-old assistant professor at Yale when, in 1911, he set out on the Urubamba River alongside two Peruvians in search of the ruins of Machu Picchu.

From Washington Post Jul. 15, 2011

Although the montaña, or jungle country, is rarely actually dry, there is less rain then than in the other months of the year; so we decided to go first to the Urubamba Valley.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

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