MADRE DE DIOS RIVER


Meaning of MADRE DE DIOS RIVER in English

River, southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia.

It rises in the easternmost range of the Andes Mountains , in Peru, and flows east to the Bolivian border. There it turns northeast and crosses the tropical rainforest of northwestern Bolivia, joining the Beni River after a course of more than 700 mi (1,100 km). A tributary of the Amazon River , it is navigable in its upper course and again below the Peru-Bolivia border.

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