Purus
Purus and Purús may refer to the following :
Places and jurisdictions in the Amazon basin
- Purus River or Rio Purús, a tributary of the Amazon River in South America
- Purús Communal Reserve in Peru
- Purús Province in Peru
- Purús District in above Purús Province and in the Ucayali Region
- Purus National Forest in Amazonas state, Brazil
Other
- Latin for pure, as in Actus purus
- plural of Puru (Vedic tribe)
See also
- Places and jurisdictions
- Alto Purús National Park in Peru
- Médio Purus Extractive Reserve in Amazonas state, Brazil
- Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil
- Santa Rosa do Purus National Forest in Acre state, Brazil
- the former Territorial Prelature of Acre and Purus (now Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Branco) in Brazil
- Animal species
- Purus jacamar or Chestnut jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus)
- Purus red howler (Alouatta puruensis)
- Rio Purus titi (Callicebus purinus)
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