Solimões () is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Brazil and Peru.

West of the Rio Negro, the Solimões River ( as the Amazon's upper Brazilian course is called ) receives three more imposing streams from the northwest — the Japurá, the Içá ( referred to as the Putumayo before it crosses over into Brazil ), and the Napo.

A. ocellatus is native to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and French Guiana, and occurs in the Amazon river basin, along the Amazonas, Içá, Negro, Solimões, and Ucayali river systems, and also in the Approuague and Oyapock drainages.

He then moved up the Amazon, to Óbidos, Manaus and finally to the Upper Amazon ( Solimões ).

Bates spent the best part of a year at Ega ( now Tefé ) in the Upper Amazon ( Solimões ), where he reports that turtle was eaten regularly, and insect catches were especially abundant.

The Rio Negro flows into the Rio Solimões to form the Amazon River South of Manaus, Brazil.

Pterophyllum leopoldi, also referred to as the teardrop angelfish, leopold's angelfish dwarf angelfish, or Roman-nosed angelfish, is a river dwelling angelfish species that originates from rivers in the Amazon River basin along the Solimões River, Amazon River, and Rupununi River.

Its natural habitat Amazon River basin in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, particularly the Ucayali, Solimões and Amazon rivers, as well as the rivers of Amapá in Brazil, the Oyapock River in French Guiana and the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Solimões river at the confluence or the Meeting of Waters with Rio Negro ( Amazon ) | Negro River, near Manaus, where the Amazon River officially begins.

Brazilians may either continue to call it the Solimões or refer to it as the Rio Marañón -- a name which Peruvians usually only apply further upstream, before the Marañón and the Ucayali join to create what they, and most of the countries in the world ( excluding Brazil ), call the Amazon river.

Tefé was founded by missionaries as Nogueira in the 18th century and also called Ega at one time, it lies on the right ( south ) bank of the portion of the Amazon River known as the Solimões, on the lake formed by the mouth of the Tefé River.

This belief was noted in several Indian villages along the Amazonas ( Solimões ) River, Rio Negro and Japurá River.

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Essentially the river divide is a west-flowing, upriver section of Venezuela's Orinoco River with an outflow to the south into the Amazon Basin.

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This expedition was broken into three separate groups and the upper Amazon section was covered by “ The Flying Expedition ” tasked with exploring the upper third to Arequipa from the river's origin.

Currently the Yagua live in some 30 communities scattered throughout a section of the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon basin which can roughly be described as a rectangle 200 miles wide and 350 miles long ( 70, 000 sq.

In Brazil it is, except for populations in the relatively open lowlands of north-eastern Roraima and along the Branco River and lower Rio Negro, apparently largely absent from the regions north of the northern bank of the Amazon River, but these regions are generally very poorly known and its presence cannot be discounted, especially in the section between the lower Rio Negro and Rio Jari ( the river on the border between Pará and Amapá ).