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Napo River

The Napo River is a tributary of the Amazon that rises on the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes and flows south-east through Ecuador and Peru to join the Amazon below Iquitos. Francisco de Orellana followed it downstream in 1541–1542 on the first European descent of the Amazon. Its basin includes Ecuador's Yasuní National Park.

Napo River
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Napo River. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/napo-river
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