Vaupés River

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The Vaupés River is a major tributary of the Rio Negro in northwestern South America, flowing through Colombia and Brazil and serving as an important waterway in the Amazon Basin.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Vaupés River canonical 11

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf river
basinCountry Brazil
Colombia
belongsTo Brazilian Amazon
linked to: Amazon rainforest

Colombian Amazon
borderBetween Brazil
Colombia
continent South America
country Brazil
Colombia
drainageBasin Amazon River
flowsThrough Amazonas Department (Colombia)
Amazonas state (Brazil)
linked to: Amazonas state

Vaupés Department
hasClimate equatorial rainforest climate
hasEcologicalSignificance Amazon rainforest biodiversity
hasHydrologicalRegime rain-fed
hasIndigenousCommunitiesAlong Desana peoples
linked to: Desana people

Tariana peoples
linked to: Tariana people

Tukano peoples
hasMajorUse regional transportation corridor
support of indigenous livelihoods
hasNavigationType partially navigable
hasTributary Papurí River
Tiquié River
hasVegetationType tropical rainforest
languageOriginOfName indigenous languages of the region
locatedIn northern Brazil
northwestern Amazon Basin
southeastern Colombia
mouth Rio Negro
mouthLocation Brazil
partOf Amazon Basin
Rio Negro basin
linked to: Negro River basin
riverSystem Amazon River system
linked to: Amazon River
sourceLocation Colombia
tributaryOf Rio Negro
usedFor fishing
river transport
subsistence activities

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guaviare Department hasMajorRiver Vaupés River
Negro River basin hasTributaryRiver Vaupés River
Mitú locatedOnRiver Vaupés River
Cubeo people riverineSettlement Vaupés River
Vaupés Department hasMajorRiver Vaupés River
south-eastern Colombia majorRiver Vaupés River
Negro River majorTributary Vaupés River
Yuruparí rituals associatedWithRiver Vaupés River
SKMU locatedNearRiver Vaupés River
Cubeo language spokenAlong Vaupés River
Vaupés River basin drainedBy Vaupés River