Pongo (geography)

A pongo (corruption of the Kichwa punku and the Aymara punku, meaning a door[1]) is a type of canyon or narrow gorge along rivers in Peru, especially on the Marañón River (Upper Amazon) and its affluents, in the Amazonas Region.

See:

  • Pongos in Amazonas, the big pongos of Marañón River[2]
  • The Amazonas Region, home to pongos
  • The Pongo de Manseriche, gorge in northwest Peru where the Marañón River runs[3]
  • The Pongo de Mainique, most dangerous whitewater pass on the Urubamba River
  • The Olmos-Marañon Route, transcontinental road, includes the "route of pongos"
  • The Marañón River, has 35 miles of pongos before the Amazon River[4]
  • The Huallaga River, crossing the Andes forming the Pongo de Aguirre[2]

Notes
  1. Church 1911, pp. 786 fn 2.
  2. Church 1911, p. 786.
  3. Church 1911, p. 787.
  4. Church 1911, pp. 786–787.

References
  • Church, George Earl (1911). "Amazon" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 786–789.


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