Balsas may refer to:

Places

Balsas, Maranhão Balsas () is a city in the state of Maranhão, northeast Brazil. It is located in southern Maranhão, 800 km from the capital of the state, São Luís. Geography Balsas covers an area of 13,141.64 km2, being the largest municipality ...

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Balsas, Ecuador Balsas is a town in the south of the El Oro Province in Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Rep ...

Balsas Canton Balsas is a canton in El Oro Province, Ecuador. Its seat is Balsas. It is the location of one of three official border crossings into Peru. The name, Balsas, refers to the balsa wood rafts that travellers used to take over the river to make the ...

Balsas District Balsas (Spanish for Rafts) is a district of the province of Chachapoyas, Peru. The District of Balsas was created in epoch of the independence, between 1821 and 1824. The district capital is Balsas. The district covers an area of 357.09 km2 ...

, Chachapoyas Province, Peru * Balsas,

Guerrero Guerrero is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo and its largest city is Acapulcocopied from article, GuerreroAs of 2020, Guerrero the pop ...

, Mexico

Rivers

Balsas River The Balsas River (Spanish Río Balsas, also locally known as the Mezcala River, or Atoyac River) is a major river of south-central Mexico. The basin flows through the states of Guerrero, México, Morelos, and Puebla. Downstream of Ciudad Al ...

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Balsas River (Panama) The Balsas River ( es, Rio Balsas) or Rio Tucutí is a river of eastern Panama. Geography The Balsas is a tributary of the Tuira (or Darien) river. It rises on the border with Colombia and flows north and then northeast to its confluence with ...

Das Balsas River (disambiguation) Das Balsas River or Rio das Balsas may refer to several rivers in Brazil: * Das Balsas River (Bahia) * Das Balsas River (Maranhão) * Das Balsas River (Tocantins) See also

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Other uses

* ''Balsas'' (plant), a genus of the

Sapindoideae Sapindoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It includes a number of fruit trees, including lychees, longans, rambutan Rambutan (; taxonomic name: ''Nephelium lappaceum'') is a medium-sized tropical tr ...

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Balsa (ship) A balsa is a boat or ship built by various pre-Columbian South American civilizations constructed from woven reeds of the Totora bullrush. They varied in size from small canoe sized personal fishing boats to large ships up to 30 metres long. They ...

, reed boats or ships of pre-Columbian South American civilizations