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Apure

American  
[ah-poo-re] / ɑˈpu rɛ /

noun

  1. a river flowing E from W Venezuela to the Orinoco. about 500 miles (805 km) long.


Apure British  
/ aˈpure /

noun

  1. a river in W Venezuela, rising in the Andes and flowing east to the Orinoco. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)

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In March of last year, more than 5,000 people fled from Venezuela’s Apure state into Colombia as fighting intensified between Venezuela’s army and rebel groups.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2022

In its report, Human Rights Watch claimed that recent military operations in Apure, have been directed solely against the Joint Eastern Command.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2022

El Tiempo, citing high-level official sources, said the Colombian military was in no way involved in the operation, which it said took place in Apure state.

From Reuters • Dec. 5, 2021

In Colombia’s eastern Arauca province and the neighbouring Apure state in Venezuela, civilians are unable to move freely, forced to obey a strict curfew and taxed on virtually all economic activity.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020

All above the confluence of the Apure was then very confusedly known; and streams that flow into the tributary streams of the Orinoco were considered as flowing into this river itself.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von