Ch'aki Mayu (

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...

''ch'aki'' dry, ''mayu'' river, "dry river", Hispanicized spelling ''Chaqui Mayu'') is a

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

n river in the

Cochabamba Department Cochabamba (, , ), from Quechua ''qucha'' or ''qhucha'', meaning "lake", ''pampa'' meaning "plain", is one of the nine departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the " granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products from ...

, Quillacollo Province, Sipe Sipe Municipality. It is a right affluent of the

Rocha River Rocha River or Kunturillu River ( Quechua ''kunturillu'' black and white, Hispanicized spelling ''Condorillo'', also ''Kundurillu, Kunturillo'') which upstream is called Mayllanku ''(Maylanco)'' is a Bolivian river in the Cochabamba Department, ...

which belongs to the

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...

river basin. Ch'aki Mayu flows in a large bow from the west to the east around Sipe Sipe. The confluence with the Rocha River is south east of the town.contraloria.gob.bo
Map of the Rocha River basin showing Ch'aki Mayu

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Rivers of Cochabamba Department {{Bolivia-river-stub

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