Place:Madre de Dios, Peru

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Name
Madre de Dios
Alternate names
Madre de Dios     (Wikipedia)
Madre de Dios department     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Type
Region
Coordinates
12°S 70.25°W
Located in
Peru
Contained Places

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Inhabited place
Iñapari
Manu
Puerto Maldonado
Unknown
Tambopata
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Madre de Dios is a region in southeastern Peru, bordering Brazil, Bolivia and the Peruvian regions of Puno, Cusco and Ucayali. Its capital is the city of Puerto Maldonado. The name of the region is a very common Spanish-language designation for the Virgin Mary, literally meaning Mother of God.

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