Hydrographic analysis of the Amazon River sources in the Cordillera de Chila (Peruvian Andes)

Abstract

History of the exploration of the sources of the Amazon in the Cordillera de Chila (Peruvian Andes). The first mapping of the sources catchment area.

Hydrographic, geologic, geomorphologic, glaciologic and pedologic maps.

Keywords

• The sources of the Amazon river
• hydrography
• glaciology
• geology
• geomorfology
• pedology
• climatology
• limnology