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
The following post:
https://believesteve.org/2016/01/02/peru-the-rio-maranon-days-26-27-1024-2515/
