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Vaupés
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Vau·pés  (vou-ps, -ps)
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The rio Tiquie is the main tributary of the rio Uaupes, which is one of the main tributaries of the rio Negro, running 374 km from its sources at the Departamento Vaupes in Colombia to its mouth at the lower rio Uaupes in Brazil, 321 km being on Brazilian territory.
COLOMBIA: Depto Amazonas, Vaupes, Rfo Apaporis, 800 feet m, 0[degrees] 5' S, 70[degrees] 30' W, Schultes & Cabrera 15410 (NY), Vaupes, Rio Piraparana.
Alexandra Aikhenvald, in particular, has lately pointed out the extensive travel of morphosyntactic features among the Amazonian languages in South America (Aikhenvald 2003 : 1-2): "In the linguistic area of the Vaupes in northwest Amazonia, several different mechanisms help create new contact-induced morphology.
 
 
 
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