Guajará River (Marajó)
| Guajará River | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Rio Guajará (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | Pará River |
• coordinates | 1°45′15″S 50°16′08″W / 1.754278°S 50.268925°W |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Pará River |
The Guajará River (Portuguese: Rio Guajará) is a river of Marajó, which itself is an island in the mouth of the Amazon. It is located in the state Pará in northern Brazil.
Course
The river has its source on the forests in the interior of Breves municipality. It flows in a southerly direction, and passes by a number of islands before it reaches a bay called Baía das Bocas in the Pará River. It is connected through river channels called furos with the Mutuacá River and the Curuacá River.[1]
The Guajará River is one of the main rivers of the 194,868 hectares (481,530 acres) Terra Grande-Pracuúba Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2006.[2] It flows south into the Pará River, which connects the Amazon River to the Tocantins River.
See also
References
- ^ Lisboa, P.L.B. (2012). A Terra dos Aruã: Uma história ecológica do arquipelágo do Marajó. Belém: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
- ^ Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Extrativista Terra Grande-Pracuúba (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-29
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