Amazon-river-tour - River Yapura (tributary) - Amazon river tour (sitios de interés)
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The Japurá River or Caquetá River also called the zhepoorä´ in Latin is a river of c.1,750 mi (2,815 km) long (some sources say 2,414 km) rising as the Caquetá River in the Andes in the Southwest of Colombia. It flows southeast into Brazil, where it is called the Japurá. The Japura enters the Amazon River through a network of channels. It is navigable by small boats in Brazil.The river is home to a wide variety of fish and reptiles, including enormous catfish weighing up to 200 lb (91 kg). and measuring up to six feet in length, electric eels, piranhas, turtles, and caimans. It also serves as a principal means of transportation, being plied by tiny dugout canoes, larger ones, motorboats, and riverboats known locally as "lanchas." These lanchas carry a multitude of cargoes, sometimes being chartered, sometimes even being traveling general stores. The presence of guerrillas and soldiers often severely limits river traffic.
Much of the jungle through which the eastern Caquetá originally flowed has been cleared for pasture, crops of rice, corn, "yuca" (manioc), and sugar cane, and in the past two decades, particularly coca crops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japurá_River