Apurímac River

Río Apurimac

Río Apurimac in the Andes

The Río Apurimac ( Quechua: Apurimaq ) is a river in southeastern Peru. The Apurimac is considered since 1975 as the source of the Amazon River, which was confirmed by an expedition of the National Geographic Society in 2001.

Name

The name translates from Quechua ( Apu = " Mr / mountain god " Rimay = "talk" ) means " speaking Mr. " or " talking God ". He is the subject of numerous stories of the Incas and namesake of the Peruvian region of Apurimac.

River

The Río Apurimac arises southwest of Caylloma from the confluence of the Río Santiago and Río Huarhuarco. After about 22 km it flows to the Río hornillos whose source is acknowledged at Nevado Mismi as Amazon source. The Río Apurimac united by a distance of 730.7 kilometers in a northerly direction with the Río Mantaro to the Río Ene, later the Río Tambo and then flows at 1069.8 kilometers in the Río Ucayali, which in turn flows into the Amazon.

The extremely steep Apurimac overcomes from its origin from about 5020 m to 600 kilometers, 3520 meters difference in altitude to a height of 1500 m. The Apurimac is thus one of the most rapid rivers of the world. In the rainy season when flood he developed a deafening noise in the canyon. Rafting adventurers with inflatables experience on Apurimac often a fiasco. Native ( indigenous ) advise against such a rafting tours, because deaths are not uncommon.

Over the river runs as a special feature of the braided grass rope bridge Qu'eswachaka.

The largest inflows

One of the biggest inflows include ( downstream ):

• Hornillos (right)
• Velille (left)
• Santo Tomás (left)
• Pampas (left)