
Camp #24 breakfast. I really enjoyed our breakfasts of fruit – mango, papaya, banana – mixed with granola and yogurt

Puerto Churro ferry

Cliff and rapid

Upstream view of above

Palaguas Rapid, CJ

Palaguas Rapid

Amazon Cavern

Fluted limestone boulder

Barba surfs stern-first

Jacaranda trees and sandstone cliff

Downstream view to the west

The Rio Silaco enters from the west

Bromeliads (?) on a sandstone wall

Chinuña Rapid ?

Chinuña Rapid ?

The canyon ends, and we enter the 50 mile long Cumba Valley

The town of Cumba is seen on the above map. The Cumba Valley begins above the town of Cumba, at Puerto Malleta (K. 501), where the Lower Grand Canyon ends. The Cumba Valley ends to the north of Bagua (which city is not on the river).

Ferry

Upstream telephoto view

Ice cream! Puerto Malleta, K. 501, upstream view

Friday afternoon at Puerto Malleta. A vehicle gets ferried across the river. Kym and Artie leave the trip here.

Campsite in the Cumba Valley, on an island on river-left, K. 515
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https://believesteve.org/2016/01/02/peru-the-rio-maranon-days-26-27-1024-2515/
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I am a photographer and author, and live in Embudo, New Mexico, alongside the Rio Grande. I have published a book of photography and accompanying text on running the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The first (print) edition is out of print, but a second edition is available as an iBook (eBook) through the iTunes bookstore. All Grand Canyon, river and nature lovers will enjoy my book:
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