The Monday River is a river of
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...
. It flows and empties into the
Parana River Paraná, Paranã or Parana may refer to:
Geology
*Paraná Basin, a sedimentary basin in South America
Places In Argentina
*Paraná, Entre Ríos, a city
* Paraná Department, a part of Entre Ríos Province
In Brazil
*Paraná (state), a state ...
, just south of the tri-border mark point of the
Triple Frontier
The Triple Frontier (, ) is a tri-border area along the junction of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, where the Iguazu River, Iguazú and Paraná River, Paraná rivers converge. Near the confluence are the cities of Puerto Iguazú (Argentina), ...
. Its primary course lies almost entirely within the
Alto Parana Department
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.
Although the river's name is spelled the same as the English name of a day of the week, the river's name is pronounced "mon-da-ugh" and means "robbed river" in the indigenous Guarani language.
See also
*
List of rivers of Paraguay
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References
*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
GEOnet Names Server
Rivers of Paraguay
Tributaries of the Paraná River
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