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Napo

American  
[nah-paw] / ˈnɑ pɔ /

noun

  1. a South American river flowing from central Ecuador through NE Peru to the Amazon River. about 700 miles (1,125 km) long.


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Napo Pineda, 21, and Daniel Moreno, 24, arrive in matching Girl Ultra T-shirts and are quick to join the forming line.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

The expedition, led by Peruvian paleontologist Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, former postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Paleontology at UZH, traversed more than 300 kilometers of the Napo River.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Police commander Fausto Martínez said four suspects were arrested in connection with the explosions in Napo.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2023

The zoo said while Napo and Inka had very different coat colours, there was "no such species as a black panther" and Inka's dark colouring was a result of a genetic mutation known as melanism.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2023

Nine days and six hundred miles down the Napo, Orellana found villages with food—a society he called Omagua.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann