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River in 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°55′17″S 55°06′31″W / 1.921326°S 55.108533°W / -1.921326; -55.108533 |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 550 m/s (19,000 cu ft/s) |
The Curuá 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." Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve. 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.
See also※
References※
- ^ Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), archived from the original on 2020-09-26, 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, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-20, retrieved 2016-05-14
- ^ Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Mulata (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-01