Key facts
- Country
- Peru
- Region
- Huánuco Region , Loreto Region , Pasco Region , San Martín Region
- Mouth
- Marañón River
- Length
- 1,100 km (680 mi)
- Average
- 3,800 m /s (130,000 cu ft/s)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Pasco Department
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- Huallaga Ferry.jpg
- Length
- 1080
Show 5 more facts
- watershed area
- 95000
- drainage basin
- Amazon basin
- Commons category
- Huallaga River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Marañón River
- discharge
- 3800
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Huallaga River is a tributary of the Marañón River, part of the Amazon Basin. Old names for this river include Guallaga and Rio de los Motilones. The Huallaga is born on the slopes of the Andes in central Peru and joins the Marañón before the latter reaches the Ucayali River to form the Amazon. Its main affluents are the Monzón, Mayo, Biabo, Abiseo and Tocache rivers. Coca is grown in most of those valleys, which are also exposed to periodic floods.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huallaga River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.