Urubamba

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Río Urubamba
Río Vilcamayu, Río Vilcanota
The valley of the Río Urubamba

The valley of the Río Urubamba

Data
location PeruPeru Peru
River system Amazon
Drain over Río Ucayali  → Amazon  → Atlantic Ocean
Headwaters near the Andean pass Abra la Raya
14 ° 28 ′ 41 ″  S , 71 ° 0 ′ 6 ″  W
Source height approx.  4300  m
Confluence with Río Tambo to Río Ucayali Coordinates: 10 ° 42 ′ 3 ″  S , 73 ° 45 ′ 22 ″  W 10 ° 42 ′ 3 ″  S , 73 ° 45 ′ 22 ″  W.
Mouth height approx.  210  m
Height difference approx. 4090 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.5 ‰
length 750 km
Catchment area 60,300 km²
Drain MQ
 2330 m³ / s
Left tributaries Río Hercca , Río Santa Teresa, Río Vilcabamba , Río Cushireni, Río Cumpirosiato, Río Mantalo , Río Picha
Right tributaries Río Yanatile , Río Yavero , Río Yuyato , Río Ticumpinia , Río Timpia , Río Mishansha , Río Camisea , Río Inuya
Medium-sized cities Sicuani , quillabamba
Small towns Combapata , Písac , Calca , Urubamba , Ollantaytambo , Aguas Calientes , Santa Teresa
Communities Timpia, Camisea , Kirigueti, Sepahua
The Urubamba is the right source river of the Ucayali

The Urubamba is the right source river of the Ucayali

Urubamba

Urubamba

Confluence of the Tambo (front) and Urubamba (right) to the Ucayali (to the left)

Confluence of the Tambo (front) and Urubamba (right) to the Ucayali (to the left)

Urubamba (view from the train to Machu Picchu)

Urubamba (view from the train to Machu Picchu)

The villages in the Valle Sagrado along the Río Urubamba

The villages in the Valle Sagrado along the Río Urubamba

The Río Urubamba is the right source river of the Río Ucayali in eastern Peru .

It rises on the watershed between the southeastern Andean chains of Peru and the highlands ( Altiplano ) of Peru and Bolivia , near the Andes pass Abra la Raya northwest of Lake Titicaca .

River course

The Urubamba flows parallel to the east and north of the Río Apurímac through one of the most culturally and scenic areas of Peru, past numerous ruins of the Incas and older cultures (see also Valle Sagrado ).

After the village of Ollantaytambo , the Urubamba meanders through the deep gorges (e.g. Cañon Torontoy) towards the rainforest. At this point the ruined city of Machu Picchu is high up in the cloud forest . At the foothills of the Eastern Cordilleras, it then runs through a wide and fertile valley (fruit and tea cultivation) in the province of La Convención with the regional center of Quillabamba . Further west, the Urubamba river disappears into the rainforest , through the last foothills of the Andes and piercing them at the breakthrough valley " Pongo de Mainique ", past the natural gas sources of Camisea, before it joins the Río Tambo to the Río Ucayali at Atalaya .

Valle Sagrado

The Valle Sagrado ("Sacred Valley of the Inca", Quechua: Willka Qhichwa ) is the agriculturally most important high valley of the Incas. The area between the villages of Písac and Ollantaytambo , north of the city of Cusco , is called Valle Sagrado . This originally deep valley at the foot of the Schneeberg mountains was made wide by alluvial material (sometimes over 3 km) and thus forms fertile soil for arable farming (especially maize cultivation) to this day. In addition to the previously mentioned smaller towns of Písac and Ollantaytambo, there are other smaller settlements and the larger centers of Calca and Urubamba.

Use of hydropower

The Machupicchu and Santa Teresa hydropower plants are located on the Río Urubamba .

Surname

The Río Urubamba is also called Río Vilcanota ( Vilcomayo , Quechua : Willkamayu , "holy river") until the confluence of the Río Huatanay east of Cusco (near Caicay) . The name comes from Quechua and means something like "plane of the spiders" (which refers to the valley level; the river is called in its entire length in Quechua Willkamayu ).

The Urubamba in the film

The Río Urubamba is one of the rivers on which Werner Herzog shot the film Aguirre in 1971 , with which he depicts a Spanish expedition train in search of the golden land of Eldorado . Klaus Kinski appeared in the main role of Aguirre .

Duke Fitzcarraldo (also with Klaus Kinski as the main actor) and parts of his A Caring Son were filmed on the Río Urubamba.

The largest tributaries

The largest tributaries include (downstream):

Important towns on the river

(Order in flow direction)

Movies

  • Rivers of the World: Urubamba - The River of the Ancestors , Arte Documentation 2010

Web links

Commons : Río Urubamba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kümmerly + Frey Rand McNally : International Atlas . Published by Georg Westermann Verlag ISBN 3-07-508962-1