Curuá Una River
The Curuá Una River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil, a right tributary of the Amazon River.
| Curuá Una River | |
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| Native name | Rio Curuá Una (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Pará state |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 2.376667°S 54.075278°W |
| Basin size | 24,505 km2 (9,461 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 680 m3/s (24,000 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Amazon River |
The river flows through the Tapajós-Xingu moist forests ecoregion.[1] Part of the river basin is in the Tapajós National Forest, a 549,067 hectares (1,356,770 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1974. The Moju River, a tributary of the Curuá-Una, rises in the national forest.[2]
See also
References
- Sears, Robin, Amazon Basin - Brazil (NT0168), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-20
- Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional do Tapajós (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-30
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