Amazon-river-tour - River Apurímac (start) - Amazon river tour (sitios de interés)
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The Apurímac River (Spanish: Río Apurímac) ("apu"=divinity "rimac"=oracle, talker) rises from glacial meltwater of the ridge of Nevado Mismi, a 5,597-meter high mountain in the Arequipa Province in southern Peru.The Apurímac is the source of the world's largest river system, the Amazon River. It rises in Peru's south-western cordilleras, 10 km (7 miles) from the village of Caylloma, and less than 160 km (100 miles) from the Pacific coast.
It flows generally northwest past Cuzco in narrow gorges of up to 3,000 m, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the USA, its course interrupted by falls and rapids. Of the six attempts so far to travel the Apurímac in its full length, only two have been successful.
After 730.70 kilometres (454.04 mi), the Apurímac joins the Mantaro River and becomes the Ene River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apurímac_River