UCAYALI

ookäyäˈlē, river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Apurímac and Urubamba rivers, E Peru, and flowing generally north through a mountain and jungle wilderness to the Marañón River, SW of Iquitos. It is a main headstream of the Amazon River; the headwaters of the Apurímac are the most distant from the Amazon's mouth. The Ucayali is navigable for its entire course by small craft. It is an important communications link for Iquitos.

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books on: Ucayali  - 110 results

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1.
Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia
Book by Peter Gow; Clarendon Press, 1991
Subjects: Indians Of South America--Kinship--Peru--Urubamba River Valley, Indians Of South America--Land Tenure--Peru--Urubamba River Valley, Indians Of South America--Mixed Descent--Peru--Urubamba River Valley, Urubamba River Valley (Peru)--Economic Conditions, Urubamba River Valley (Peru)--Social Conditions
...2. Communities on the Alto Ucayali, Tambo, and Bajo Urubamba rivers...Settlements and population of the Alto Ucayali/Tambo/Bajo Urubamba, 1932 49...Settlements and population of the Alto Ucayali and Bajo Urubamba, 1981 58 When...
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Tamed Frontiers: Economy, Society, and Civil Rights in Upper Amazonia
Book by Fernando Santos-Granero, Frederica Barclay; Westview Press, 2000
Subjects: Civil Rights--Peru--Loreto (Dept.), Civil Society--Peru--Loreto (Dept.), Loreto (Peru : Dept.)--Economic Conditions, Loreto (Peru : Dept.)--Social Conditions
...11.4 Evolution of Loretos and Ucayalis GVP, 1963-1989 245...Departments of Loreto, Ucayali, and San Martin 2...the present-day departments of Loreto, Ucayali, and San Martin, Loreto today occupies...
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Frontier Expansion in Amazonia
Book by Marianne Schmink, Charles H. Wood; University Press of Florida, 1984
Subjects: Agricultural Ecology--Amazon River Region--Congresses, Indians Of South America--Amazon River Region--Government Relations--Congresses, Investments--Amazon River Region--Congresses, Land Settlement--Amazon River Region--Congresses
...Maranon from the north. The enormous Ucayali River region and the drainage of the...Franciscan activity in parts of the Ucayali region. The Franciscans, perhaps because...and 2 . The Franciscan missions on the Ucayali, Pisqui, Archani, and Aguaytia rivers...
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Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
Book by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary M. Tabor, Carol House, Mary C. Pearl; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Ecology, Environmental Health
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People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America
Book by Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, Jose M. V. Fragoso; Columbia University Press, 2004
Subjects: Wildlife Management--Central America, Wildlife Management--South America
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An Anthropogenic Meander Cutoff along the Ucayali River, Peruvian Amazon*
Journal article by Christian Abizaid; The Geographical Review, Vol. 95, 2005
Subjects: Human ecology--Reports
...Anthropogenic Meander Cutoff along the Ucayali River, Peruvian Amazon*. by Christian...largest rivers in the Amazon Basin, the Ucayali River of Peru. FIGURE 1 OMITTED During...doctoral dissertation along the Central Ucayali River, near the city of Pucallpa--the...
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In Search of Ritual: Tradition, Outer World and Bad Manners in the Amazon
Journal article by Oscar Calavia Saez; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004
Subjects: Ethnology--Research, Fasts and feasts--Research, Indigenous peoples--Behavior, Indigenous peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Rites and ceremonies--Research, Ritual--Research, Rituals--Research
...from other small Nawa groups of the Jurua-Purus and Urubamba-Ucayali rivers in the southwestern Amazon. (1) They all belong to the...and male nape-wounding during the initiation feasts in the Ucayali. However the gender opposition is made explicit--as the ethnographers...
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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
...Departments of Amazonas, Loreto, San Martin, Ucayali and Madre de Dios has 62 per cent of the...Huancavelica (180). In the Selva region, e.g. Ucayali (3395) and Amazonas (344) also have low...Departments of Amazonas, San Martin and Ucayali which taken together have an average bednight...
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Violent Opportunities: the Rise and Fall of "king Coca" and Shining Path
Journal article by Bruce H. Kay; Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Democracy, Guerrilla forces, Peru, Politics, Shining Path-Peru, Society, Violence
...transport coca paste along the tributaries of the Maranbn and Ucayali rivers and an array of Amazon routes across the Brazilian and...department of Ayacucho, Senderos cradle, and areas of Huanuco and Ucayali. Most of the guerrilla-perpetrated deaths have been civilians...
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Forbidden Fruit: Infidelity, Affinity and Brideservice among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia
Journal article by Bartholomew Dean; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 1, 1995
Subjects: Adultery--Research, Equality--Research, Ethnology--Peru, Peru--Social aspects, Social status--Research, South American native peoples--Peru
...Amazonia Peruana. Mexico: Libro Mex. Girbal y Barcele, N. 1925 1790. Diario del viaje ... hice por famosos rios Maranon y Ucayali. In Historia de las misiones Franciscanas (VIII). Lima: Talleres Tipograficos de la Penitenciaria. Goldman, I. 1963. The...
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magazine articles on: Ucayali  - 6 results

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Drug Production Creates an Ecological Nightmare
Magazine article by Michael Hedges; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, August 22, 1994
Subjects: Amazon River--Environmental aspects, Coca--Environmental aspects, Cocaine industry--Environmental aspects, Huallaga River--Environmental aspects, Peru--Environmental aspects, Pesticides--Environmental aspects
...Less than 20 years ago, the Huallaga and Ucayali rivers and their tributaries teemed with...spent much of the last 30 years in the Ucayali River region. The twin factors of population...on their crowns. The tributaries of the Ucayali and Huallaga rivers were clogged with...
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The Only War We'Ve Got" Drug Enforcement in Latin America
Magazine article by Coletta Youngers, Jo Ann Kawell; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 31, 1997
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...coca plants that were once confined to the Upper Huallaga Valley can now be found throughout the Huallaga Valleys, the Ucayali valleys in the central jungle, La Convencion in the department of Cuzco, and beyond. In Colombia, cocaine mafias have verticalized...
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From the Field Museum
Magazine article by Alaka Wali; World Watch, Vol. 18, January 2005
...peasants, long-established Quechua speaking farmers of the Huallaga valley, and Shipibo and Cacataibo indigenous people of the Ucayali--are collaborating with the Park team to find sustainable ways to boost subsistence practices, manage their natural resources...
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It's SOHO Sustainable
Magazine article by Kyrke Gaudreau; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 35, August 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...the world. The story of the way the Amazon Rivers cyclic flooding dictates food availability and disease vectors within the Ucayali region of Peru is a fantastic illustration of why communities must be considered within their larger biophysical systems. Closer...
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Profits, Poverty and Illegality the Logic of Drug Corruption
Magazine article by Peter Andreas; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 27, 1993
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...personnel have even directly blocked drug-enforcement efforts. For example, Peruvian Navy commanders operating along the Ucayali River have reportedly not let U.S. drugenforcement agents enter coca-producing areas. 18 There have also been repeated cases...
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A Sweet Return from Tate & Lyle; Sam Fleming
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2007
Subjects: Sugar industry
...been awarded exploration licencesin darkest Peru. Shares added 1p to 15 3/4p on news it had won the right todrill blocks at Ucayali, near the headwaters of the Amazon and a basin close toLake Titicaca. Set-top box maker Pace Micro Technology gained 16 1/2p...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ucayali  - 6 results

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Ucayali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UCAYALI ookaya le, river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Apurimac and Urubamba rivers, E...main headstream of the Amazon River; the headwaters of the Apurimac are the most distant from the Amazons mouth. The Ucayali is navigable for its entire course by small craft. It is an important communications link for Iquitos...
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Urubamba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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, is located there. High...
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MaraÑÓn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...It flows generally NW, then E across the Andes to join the Ucayali River in NE Peru where it forms the Amazon River; some...the headwaters of the Apurimac River (a tributary of the Ucayali) are the most distant from the Amazons mouth. The Maranon is...
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Amazon , River, Peru and Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...second longest river, c.3,900 mi (6,280 km) long, formed by the junction in N Perus Andes Mts. of two major headstreams, the Ucayali and the shorter Maranon . It flows across N Brazil before entering the Atlantic Ocean near Belem. The Amazon carries more...
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ApurÍmac
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...becomes the Ene; after joining the Perene 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 Apurimac, which rise from glacial meltwater...
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