Solimões River

Solimões (Portuguese pronunciation: [soliˈmõjs]) is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru.

The ecoregion of the Solimões River drainage basin is entirely tropical rainforest.

An Amazonian aboriginal nation called Soriman was corrupted in Portuguese to Solimão and Soliemoens, from which the name of this section of the river and the region it drains is derived.

[citation needed] Use of the name Solimões for the upper Amazon is mostly confined to Brazilian speakers of Portuguese; the rest of the world refers to both the upper and lower portions of the river as the Amazon.

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