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Marañón River
The river Marañón (RĂo Marañón in Spanish) rises about 160 kilometers to the northeast of Lima, Peru. It flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36' southern latitude; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.
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