Place:Madre de Dios, Peru

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NameMadre de Dios
Alt namesMadre de Diossource: Wikipedia
Madre de Dios departmentsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeRegion
Coordinates12°S 70.25°W
Located inPeru
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Iñapari
Manu
Puerto Maldonado
Unknown
Tambopata
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Madre de Dios is a department and region in southeastern Peru, bordering Brazil, Bolivia and the Peruvian departments of Puno, Cusco and Ucayali, in the Amazon Basin. Its capital is the city of Puerto Maldonado. It is also the third largest department in Peru, after Ucayali and Loreto. However, it is also the least densely populated department in Peru, as well as its least populous department.

The name of the department is derived from the Madre de Dios River, ultimately a tributary of the Amazon, and named by ethnic Spanish colonists. It is a very common Spanish language designation for the Virgin Mary, literally meaning Mother of God.

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