Curuá River (Amazon River tributary)
Appearance
Curuá River | |
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Native name | Rio Curuá Error {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help) |
Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Pará state |
• coordinates | 1°55′17″S 55°06′31″W / 1.921326°S 55.108533°W |
The Curuá River (Amazon River) is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil.
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