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Hugo Montoro, Jorge Vizcarra, Diego Gago, Jorge Paredes, officers
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Ronald Gutierrez, Jiaoli Ren, Catalina Escobar, Alejandro Mendoza,
Christian Frias, Collin Ortals, Adrian Garcia, Renne Corbet (PIT)
Zara Torres, Karen Garcia, Jorge Bardales, Giorly Machuca (UNAP)
Marco Paredes (SENAMHI)
The Modern Amazon Basin

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PERU Mayor biodiversidad que otros pases amaznicos
Drain Area: 6,915,000 km2 (40% of South America)

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3) Geology valley is not considered

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MR: avg. annual migration rate

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NL: total number of observable oxbow lakes

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Potential changes in rivers without adequate knowledge
[2] Long-term modeling of meandering channels: Nonlinear model

Johannesson and Parker (1985)

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FIRST EXPERIMENTS
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PROPUESTA
Faltan estudios morfolgicos de los ros Amaznicos

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Gestin del transporte acutico Ministerio de Transportes y

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Datos Hidrolgicos Senamhi

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Datos de Sedimentos, Hidrodinmicos, Morfodinmicos SHNA

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