# Purus

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**Purus** and **Purús** may refer to:

## Places and jurisdictions in the Amazon basin

- [Purus River](/source/Purus_River) or Rio Purús, a tributary of the Amazon River in South America
- [Purús Communal Reserve](/source/Pur%C3%BAs_Communal_Reserve), in Peru
- [Purús District](/source/Pur%C3%BAs_District), in Purús Province, Peru
- [Purús Province](/source/Pur%C3%BAs_Province), in Peru
- [Purus National Forest](/source/Purus_National_Forest), in Amazonas, Brazil

## Other

- Latin for *pure*, as in [Actus purus](/source/Actus_purus)
- plural of [Puru (Vedic tribe)](/source/Puru_(Vedic_tribe))

## See also

- *[Purussaurus](/source/Purussaurus)*, a prehistoric reptile
- [Puru (disambiguation)](/source/Puru_(disambiguation))

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