Pira Paraná River

Pira Paraná River
Pira Paraná River is located in Colombia
Pira Paraná River
Mouth location in Colombia
Native nameRio Pira Paraná (Portuguese)
Location
CountryColombia
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • coordinates
0°25′57″S 70°15′12″W / 0.432567°S 70.253337°W / -0.432567; -70.253337
Basin features
River systemApaporis River

The Pira Paraná River is a river of the Vaupés Department, Colombia. It is a tributary of the 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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "O Alto Rio Negro", Licenciatura Indígena (in Portuguese), retrieved 2017-03-04
  2. ^ "The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes".