Fresco River
The Fresco River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. It is a right tributary of Xingu River, which it joins at São Félix do Xingu.
Fresco River | |
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Mouth location in Brazil | |
Native name | Rio Fresco (Portuguese) |
Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | |
• coordinates | 6°38′43″S 52°00′09″W |
Length | 560 km (350 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 43,771 km2 (16,900 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | São Félix do Xingu, Pará State (near mouth) |
• average | 865.6 m3/s (30,570 cu ft/s) |
• minimum | 2.03 m3/s (72 cu ft/s) |
• maximum | 4,526 m3/s (159,800 cu ft/s) |
Discharge | |
• location | Boa Esperança, Pará State (Basin size: 43,030 km2 (16,610 sq mi) |
• average | 851 m3/s (30,100 cu ft/s) (Period of data: 1970-1996)837 m3/s (29,600 cu ft/s)[2] |
• minimum | 2 m3/s (71 cu ft/s) |
• maximum | 4,449 m3/s (157,100 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
River system | Xingu River |
Tributaries | |
• left | Riozinho |
• right | Trairão |
The Fresco River is a blackwater river. Its basin is in the Xingu–Tocantins–Araguaia moist forests ecoregion.[3]
See also
References
- Ziesler, R.; Ardizzone, G.D. (1979). "Amazon River System". The Inland waters of Latin America. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
- Michael, T. Coe; Marcos, Heil Costa; Aurélie, Botta; Charon, Birkett (23 Aug 2002). "Long-term simulations of discharge and floods in the Amazon Basin". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.549.3854.
- Sears, Robin, Eastern Amazonian - Brazil (NT0180), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-22
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