The Pira Paraná River is a river of the Vaupés Department, Colombia. It is a left-bank tributary of the Apaporis River.
| Pira Paraná River | |
|---|---|
  Mouth location in Colombia | |
| Native name | Rio Pira Paraná (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 0°25′57″S 70°15′12″W / 0.432567°S 70.253337°W |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Apaporis River |
People of the Eastern Tucano language group live along the river.[1]
The main figure of the "Rock of Nyi", a group of several rocks with some petroglyphs standing near by the Equator, got a graffiti in the 1970s by a Protestant missionary.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "O Alto Rio Negro", Licenciatura Indígena (in Portuguese), retrieved 2017-03-04
- ^ "The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes".