APURÍMAC

apoorēˈmäk, river, c.430 mi (690 km) long, rising in the Andes, S Peru. It flows generally northwest in a narrow valley. After joining the Mantaro River, the Apurímac becomes the Ene; after joining the Perené River, it becomes the Tambo. When it joins the Urubamba River, it becomes the Ucayali, which is one of the main headstreams of the Amazon. The headwaters of the Apurímac, which rise from glacial meltwater on Nevado Mismi, were determined by a 2000 expedition to the most distant from the mouth of the Amazon.

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books on: ApurImac  - 113 results

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Highway of the Sun
Book by Victor W. Von Hagen; Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1955
Subjects: Incas, Peru--Description And Travel, Roads--Peru
...81 VII. VII Somewhere, Lost Vilcabamba 98 VIII. VIII Apurimac: the Bridge of the Great Speaker 121 IX. IX The Sanctuary of the Hawk 136...
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The Incas of Peru
Book by Clements Markham; AMS Press, 1969
Subjects: Incas, Peru--Antiquities
...34 BRIDGE OVER THE APURIMAC ,, ,, 78 WALLS...TAMPU-TOCCO, 1 near the great river Apurimac. Here the tradition of the Deity was...from invasion by the deep gorge of the Apurimac. The fugitives of long ages back had...
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Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity in the High Provinces of Southern Peru
Book by Deborah Poole; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Andes Region--Ethnic Relations, Andes Region--Politics And Government, Andes Region--Social Conditions, Ethnicity--Andes Region, Indians Of South America--Andes Region--Politics And Government, Indians Of South America--Andes Region--Wars, Peasantry--Andes Region, Violence--Andes Region--History
...in the High Provinces of Cusco and Apurimac , Daniel W. Gade 31...of Property in Huaquirca, Antabamba Apurimac , Peter Gose 165...grasslands, of the Departments of Cusco and Apurimac. This catchment area includes all of...
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The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian
Book by Isaiah Bowman; American Geographical Society, 1916
Subjects: Geology--Andes, Human Geography--Peru, Peru--Description And Travel, Physical Geography--Peru, Yale Peruvian Expedition--(1911)
...small closely spaced dots; coarse alluvium by large closely spaced dots. To take an illustration. In Figure 32 we have the Apurimac region near Pasaje see location map, Fig. 20 . At the lower edge of the rectangle is a snow-capped outlier of the Cordillera...
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Empire of the Inca
Book by Burr Cartwright Brundage; University of Oklahoma Press, 1963
Subjects: Incas, Peru--History--To 1548
...awesome natural surroundings as that of Apurimac. Their responses usually were available...coastal Pachacamac was the sierra oracle of Apurimac on the Royal Road northwest of Cuzco. The Apurimac Great Speaker was the river separating...
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Geographical Dimensions of the Shining Path Insurgency in Peru
Journal article by Robert B. Kent; The Geographical Review, Vol. 83, 1993
Subjects: Communism--Peru, Insurgency--Political aspects, Peru--Autonomy and independence movements, Shining Path (Peru)--Political aspects
...southern Andean departments of Ayacucho and Apurimac, primarily through control of the education...capitals and hamlets of Ayacucho and Apurimac. They provided the Shining Path with...province of Andahuaylas in neighboring Apurimac formed the principal territorial focus...
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Regional Inequalities in the Peruvian Tourist Industry
Journal article by Greg O'Hare, Hazel Barrett; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 165, 1999
Subjects: Economic geography--Research, Hotels and motels--Economic aspects, Peru--Business and industry, Regional economics--Research, Restaurant industry--Economic aspects, Travel industry--Economic aspects
...large group of Sierra Departments e.g. Apurimac (588), Ayacucho (1850), Huanuco (1554...with score values less than 25 (e.g. Apurimac 2.7, Huancavelica 10.1 and Cajamarca...Departments have limited services e.g. Apurimac (0.9 % and 0.12 %) and Huancavelica...
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Appropriating Pawns: Andean Dominance and the Manipulation of Things
Journal article by Sarah Lund Skar; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 1, 1995
Subjects: Andes--Social aspects, Exchange theory (Sociology)--Analysis, Melanesians--Social aspects, Reciprocity (Commerce)--Social aspects
...the Pincos Valley in the Department of Apurimac in Perus southern highlands. In the extreme...hacienda, large estates in the northern Apurimac were able to move their workers out from...obligation, priests in this area of the Apurimac have been known to seek out the culprit...
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Contemporary Terrorism in Peru: Senderoso and the Media
Journal article by Kevin G. Barnhurst; Journal of Communication, Vol. 41, 1991
Subjects: Communication
...for the last thirty years, and it ranks, with its neighbors Apurimac and Huancavelica, at the bottom on measures of Peruvian development...proselytizing and indoctrination from Ayacucho to the departments of Apurimac and Huancavelica, and Guzman had acquired the sobriquet...


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The Last Inca Bridge
Magazine article by Loren Mcintyre; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, September 2003
Subjects: Bridges--Discovery, exploration, etc., Bridges--History, Incas--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...I first saw a film replica of the Apurimac bridge in a 1929 movie starring Ramon...then to search for one of the lesser Apurimac bridges described in the yellowing pages...plane and flew up the narrow gorge of the Apurimac from jungle to source, photographing...
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Highstakes for an Inca Refuge: For Centuries off the Beaten Track, the Pre-Columbian Site of Choquequirao Now Stands Front and Center as the Tourist's Alternative to Machu Picchu
Magazine article by Toby Fenton; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 56, May-June 2004
Subjects: Ancient cities--Description and travel, Peru--Description and travel, Sales promotions--Analysis, Tourism promotion--Analysis, Travel industry--Analysis
...Cachora sits on the southern lip of the Apurimac Canyon. Below the valley plunges into...abyss, carved out over millennia by the Apurimac River--just miles away laterally, but...nests. As the fields become scrub, the Apurimac River reveals itself for the first time...
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Time of Fear
Magazine article by Nelson Manrique, Jo-Marie Burt; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 24, 1990
Subjects: Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States
...comprised of the departments of Huancavelica, Ayacucho and Apurimac, three of the countrys poorest, and home to 1.2 million of...state of emergency" in the Andean departments of Ayacucho, Apurimac, and Huancavelica, granting administrative control to the...
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Secret Citadel of the Last Inca: Lured by History and Myth This Author Trekked through Dense Peruvian Jungle to a Remote Stronghold Once Occupied by Manco Inca
Magazine article by Ricardo Carrasco Stuparich; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, September 2002
Subjects: Incas--Religion and mythology, Peru--History, South American native peoples--History
...spiders trapping insects in the screenless window frames. This forest owes its abundance to the fact that the deep Urubamba and Apurimac River valleys separate the Vilcabamba mountain range from the rest of the Andean cordilleras, thereby isolating countless species...
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Women at War
Magazine article by Carol Andreas, Anita Fokkema; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 24, 1990
Subjects: Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States
...desire to recruit them. He simply responded, "The men are shaping up." In 1984, I had the opportunity to live for a time in Apurimac (adjacent to Ayacucho), where I accompanied a female leader of the peasant union, Confederacion Campesina del Peru (CCP...
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HowTribe Star Bruce Saved My Life in the Jungle; IN THEIR HANDS: Bruce Parry, above, and the Crew, Left, Created an Airstrip and Stretchered Matt Brandon to a Helicopter. Right, Healthy Again, Matt Has Returned to the Amazon for Filming
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 23, 2008
Subjects: Airports--Runways, Runways
...Right, Healthy Again, Matt Has Returned to the Amazon for Filming. Byline: Claudia Joseph Set amid dense jungle, the Apurimac Valley in Peru is the centre ofcocaine production in South America. It is described by locals as the Wild West and drug barons...
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Anti-Coca Programs Shelved to Placate Farmers
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 4, 2002
...International Development, met yesterday with the commission. CARE has halted its program for alternative-development strategies in Apurimac Valley, one of four areas where it has operated for the past year, spokesman Allen Clinton said in a statement. The sudden...
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Hallelujah for Delia and an End to Britain's Food Snobbery
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 12, 2008
...organicconditions and was fairly tradedthus ensuring a decent wage for the labourers? And what of the food miles your70 per cent cocoa Cru Apurimac chocolate had travelled from its origins besidea river in Peru? Could your sweet tooth and gourmet sensibilities really be...
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Coffee-in-Lieu-of-Coca Plan Gains Ground
Newspaper article by Larry Luxner; The Washington Times, February 2, 1999
Subjects: Peru
...are scattered through Perus jungles from Moyobamba in the north, to Villa Rica and Merced in the center, and on toward the Apurimac River Valley and Aquillabamba in the south, near Cuzco and the world-famous Machu Picchu ruins. Until now, the regions poverty...
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Hallelujah for Delia and the Blessed End of Food Snobbery
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 13, 2008
...conditions and was fairlytraded thus ensuring a decent wage for the labourers? Andwhatofthefoodmiles your70percentcocoaCru Apurimac chocolatehad travelled fromitsoriginsbesidea river in Peru? Could your sweet tooth and gourmet sensibilities reallybejustified...
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encyclopedia articles on: ApurImac  - 4 results

 
 
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ApurÍmac
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
APURIMAC apoore mak, river, c.430 mi (690 km) long, rising in...a narrow valley. After joining the Mantaro River, the Apurimac becomes the Ene; after joining the Perene River, it becomes...main headstreams of the Amazon . The headwaters of the Apurimac, which rise from glacial meltwater on Nevado Mismi, were...
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Ucayali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Apurimac and Urubamba rivers, E Peru, and flowing generally north...main headstream of the Amazon River; the headwaters of the Apurimac are the most distant from the Amazons mouth. The Ucayali is...
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Urubamba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...URUBAMBA ooroobam ba, river, c.450 mi (720 km) long, rising in the Andes Mts., S Peru, and flowing generally north to join the Apurimac River to form the Ucayali. The Urubamba is extensively used for irrigation, and its valley is heavily populated; Cuzco, Peru...
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MaraÑÓn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Maranon to be the authentic headwater of the Amazon, but an expedition in 2000 determined that the headwaters of the Apurimac River (a tributary of the Ucayali) are the most distant from the Amazons mouth. The Maranon is navigable to the Pongo de Manseriche...


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