Purus and Purús may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions in the Amazon basin
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Purus River
The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park a ...
or Rio Purús, a tributary of the Amazon River in South America
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Purús Communal Reserve The Purús Communal Reserve (''Reserva Communal Purús'') is a protected area in the Amazonian part of Peru. Located in the Madre de Dios Region and in the Ucayali Region
Ucayali () is an inland department and region of Peru. Located in the Am ...
, in Peru
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Purús District
Purús District is the only district of the Purús Province located in the Ucayali Region in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital''. Retrieved April 7, 2008. The Purus River
The Purus River (Po ...
, in Purús Province, Peru
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Purús Province
The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park a ...
, in Peru
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Purus National Forest
The Purus National Forest () is a national forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
It surrounds the shamanic-Christian community of Céu do Mapiá.
Location
The Purus National Forest is in the municipality of Pauini, Amazonas.
It has an area ...
, in Amazonas, Brazil
Other
* Latin for ''pure'', as in
Actus purus
In scholastic philosophy, is the absolute perfection of God.
Overview
Created beings have potentiality that is not actuality, imperfections as well as perfection. Only God is simultaneously all that he can be, infinitely real and infinitely ...
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Puru (Vedic tribe)
The Purus were an Indo-Aryan tribal alliance or a confederation of tribes that existed between 1700 and 1400 BCE. There were several factions of Purus, one being the Bharatas. The Purus and the Bharatas were the two most prominent tribes in m ...
See also
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Purussaurus
''Purussaurus'' is an extinct genus of giant caiman that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch, from the Friasian to the Huayquerian in the SALMA classification. It is known from skull material found in the Brazilian and Peruvian Am ...
'', a prehistoric reptile
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Puru (disambiguation)
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