Throughout the 1700s, the Marañón River in northern Peru held the ... capped peak of Mismi (map) as the headwaters of the Apurímac River and the ultimate source of the Amazon.

in preparation for my trip to Peru, I realized that another river ... film production and an assignment to produce a new Amazon river map for Harvard University. Sanada says the expedition will ...

They used satellite technology to map the river. For this exploration, they traveled the Amazon through Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Yuri says it's almost 7,000 kilometers long — that's more than ...

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

For the next seven months, members will map and measure the river ... For centuries, people believed the Amazon’s source was the Marañón River in northern Peru. Then explorers argued that ...

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian indigenous groups were blocking a large river in the country’s ... The pipeline transports crude from the Amazon to Peru’s desert coast to be refined.

and Peru has declared a state of emergency, promising to deliver clean water and medicine to affected regions. Consecutive severe droughts have left communities wondering if the Amazon River will ...