The Heath River , which runs from the Andes surrounding Lake Titicaca northwards to the Madre de Dios River , marks the natural border between Peru and Bolivia .
3-574: The Eja Sonene indigenous community lives in the area. They are an ethnic group belonging to either the Tacana-speaking Arawak , who migrated from the west or those of Pano origin, who originate from the lower reaches of the Madeira River . Named for the American explorer Dr Edwin R. Heath in the 1880s, the river borders lowland savannah and rainforest . An early expedition to explore
6-810: A river in Peru is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ese Ejja people The Ese Ejja are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru , in the southwestern Amazon basin . 1,687 Ese Ejja live in Bolivia, in the Pando and Beni Departments , in the foothills along the Beni and the Madre de Dios Rivers . In Peru, they live along the Tambopata and Heath Rivers , near Puerto Maldonado . Their name derives from their autonym, Ece'je , which means "people." They are also known as
9-552: The Heath River basin was led by the British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett in 1910. 12°50′00″S 68°50′10″W / 12.8333°S 68.8361°W / -12.8333; -68.8361 This Madre de Dios Region geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Bolivia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
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