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Huallaga

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Huallaga

River of central Peru; it rises in the Andes, near Cerro de Pascua, and flows generally northeastwards for 1,120 km/696 mi to meet the River Marañon, one of the main headwaters of the Amazon. The upper reaches of the river valley are used for growing coca, a major source of the drug cocaine.



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The intensification of coca cultivation in the Huallaga flood plain and adjacent low hills in Peru, as well as vigorous expansion into highland forest environments, is responsible for the annihilation of nearly 1 million hectares of tropical forest resources.
Nowhere have cocaine chemicals caused more damage than in Peru, Consider that nearly two thirds of the world's cocaine supply originates from coca leaf grown in a 150-mile stretch of mountain jungle in the country's Upper Huallaga Valley.
They arrived in Florida after a journey that began at the source of coca leaves in Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley, progressed through process laboratories hidden in the Amazon jungle of southern Colombia, and almost resulted in making available "cut" cocaine worth $1.
 
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