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Yapurá

British  
/ japuˈra /

noun

  1. the Spanish name for Japurá

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“We live in a country with a strongman who wants to control everything,” Yapura said.

From Washington Post

Another reason Morales so thoroughly dominates Bolivian politics is that there is no significant ideological debate over the direction of the country, said Grover Yapura, editor of the Bolivian magazine Oxigeno.

From Washington Post

Yapura said the average Bolivian has seen a clear improvement in the standard of living under Morales.

From Washington Post

See here!" he shouted; "the place is far to the north, near the valley of the Yapura River.

From Project Gutenberg

The next great affluent is the Yapura, which, rising in the mountains of New Granada, takes a south-easterly course for one thousand miles, its principal mouth entering the Amazon opposite the town of Ega; but it has numberless small channels, the streams of which, two hundred miles apart, flow into the great river.

From Project Gutenberg