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  • Finally, somewhere along the Ucayali River in Peru, Allen found a curandero drug doctor who agreed to preside over his preparation and ingestion of yage.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • Finally, somewhere along the Ucayali River in Peru, Allen found a curandero drug doctor who agreed to preside over his preparation and ingestion of yage.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • From this broader classification we used only the forests east of the Ucayali River and south of the Solimões (Amazon) River for this ecoregion – as these rivers are formidable barriers to the dispersal of many species.

    Southwest Amazon moist forests 2008

  • A considerable tribe of Panoan linguistic stock formerly centering about the confluence of the Manoa with the Ucayali River, Loreto province, north-eastern Peru, and now engaged as boatmen, rubber gatherers, etc., along the whole extent of the latter river to, or below, its junction with the Marañon.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • A former important mission tribe on the middle Ucayali River, Peru, being the principal of a group of twenty or more closely cognate tribes constituting the Panoan linguistic stock, and holding most of the territory of the Huallaga, Ucayali, and Javári Rivers in north-eastern Peru, with outlying tribes on the Juruá, Puruó, Beni, and upper waters of the Mareira in extreme western Brazil and northern Bolivia.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Along the Ucayali River in Peru I have hiked into the forest with Shipibo natives who stopped at large chuchuhuasi trees to cut bark.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Also the uptight young woman in a pencil skirt who puts her corporate career over love through improbable circumstance finds herself with a Matthew McConaughey-type river rafting guide stranded along the Ucayali River with only 3 days to get to her sisters wedding in Machu Pichu.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Also the uptight young woman in a pencil skirt who puts her corporate career over love through improbable circumstance finds herself with a Matthew McConaughey-type river rafting guide stranded along the Ucayali River with only 3 days to get to her sisters wedding in Machu Pichu.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • July 1st, 2009 LIMA - At least 20 people, including several children, were killed in eastern Peru when two passenger boats crashed on the Ucayali River Tuesday, authorities said.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • Peru: Titicaca Lake currently at its lowest water level in 60 years Cruising the wild side of Peru - the Ucayali River in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon Claudia Llosa's film "La Teta Asustada" ( "The Milk of Sorrow") won the Best Fiction category, and got another prize for artistic direction at the 31st International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, held in Havana.

    HispanicTips 2009

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