Qualla: Mamoré River https://qualla.com/mamore-river en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/1/v/mamore-river-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mamoré River https://qualla.com/mamore-river Mamoré River: Introduction https://qualla.com/mamore-river/ Photo credit Jan Ludewig, CC BY-SA 4.0. Follow the water far enough and the Amazon begins in surprising places. One of its great feeder-rivers, the Mamoré, gathers itself on the northern slopes above Cochabamba in the Bolivian highlands, then runs north for hundreds of kilometers across flat, flooding plains before joining the Beni and Madre de Dios to form the Madeira, one of the mightiest tributaries of the Amazon itself. Along the way it passes through country that has held a lost civilization, fueled a fortune in rubber, and swallowed thousands of lives in one of the deadliest railway projects ever attempted. For a river most of the world has never heard of, the Mamoré has carried an extraordinary amount of history on its current.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/1/v/mamore-river-wp/6t1v-mamor-river-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mamoré River: A River Assembled from Many https://qualla.com/mamore-river/ Photo credit CC BY 1.0. The Mamoré is less a single stream than a gathering of them. It rises high in the Sierra de Cochabamba, where it is first called the Chimoré, and collects tributary after tributary as it descends: the Chapare, Secure, Apere, and Yacuma feeding in from the west, the Ichilo, Guapay...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/1/v/mamore-river-wp/6t1v-mamor-river-a-river-assembled-from-many.mp3 0:06 2 full Mamoré River: The Plain That Hid a Civilization https://qualla.com/mamore-river/ Photo credit Yulacha, CC BY-SA 4.0. Spread across the river's basin is the Llanos de Moxos, a vast seasonally flooded plain in northeastern Bolivia that for centuries looked, to outside eyes, like empty wetland. It was anything but. Beginning around 1,500 years ago, the people archaeologists now call the Casarabe c...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/1/v/mamore-river-wp/6t1v-mamor-river-the-plain-that-hid-a-civilization.mp3 0:06 3 full Mamoré River: The Devil's Railway https://qualla.com/mamore-river/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Edupedro assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. By the late nineteenth century, a different kind of wealth ran through these forests: rubber. The trouble was the rapids. Where the Mamoré joins the Beni and becomes the Madeira, a long stretch of cataracts blocked boats from reaching the Atlantic. The answer was the Madeira-Mamo...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/t/1/v/mamore-river-wp/6t1v-mamor-river-the-devils-railway.mp3 0:06 4 full Mamoré River: The Long Quiet River https://qualla.com/mamore-river/ Photo credit Erland Nordenskiöld, Public domain. Today the Mamoré flows much as it always has, wide and brown and unhurried across the Bolivian lowlands, swelling enormously in the rains and shrinking back in the dry season. Measurements taken as far back as 1874 by the engineer Franz Keller recorded its drainage basin at nearl...

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