Curuá River (Amazon River tributary)
The Curuá River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil.
| Curuá River | |
|---|---|
  Curuá River (Amazon River tributary) (Brazil) | |
| Native name | Rio Curuá (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Pará state |
| • coordinates | 1.921326°S 55.108533°W |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 550 m3/s (19,000 cu ft/s) |
The river basin lies partly within the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[1] Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve.[2] The river is also fed by streams in the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.[3]
See also
References
- Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), retrieved 2016-05-12
- Plano de Manejo da Reserva Biológica Maicuru Resumo Executivo (PDF), Belém: SEMA: Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente, May 2011, p. 8, retrieved 2016-05-14
- Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Mulata (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-01
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