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Urqu Jawira (Pedro Domingo Murillo)

The 883rd longest river in the world

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Urqu Jawira (Aymara urqu male, jawira river, "male river", Hispanicized spellings Orkojahuira, Orkojawira) is a river in Bolivia in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province. It originates in the Wayllari mountain range. On its way to Choqueyapu River it crosses the city La Paz from north to south in the Putu Putu or Miraflores district.

Flows through: Bolivia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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