The Juruá River (Portuguese ''Rio Juruá''; Spanish ''Río Yuruá'') is a southern
affluent
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river
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of the
Amazon River
The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.
The headwaters of t ...
west of the
Purus River
The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and ...
, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded
forest
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country it traverses.
For most of its length the river flows through the
Purus várzea
The Purus várzea (NT0156) is an ecoregion of seasonally flooded várzea forest in the central Amazon basin. It is part of the Amazon biome.
The ecoregion is home to a vegetation adapted to floods of up to that may last for eight months.
There is ...
Ucayali
The Ucayali River ( es, Río Ucayali, ) is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city. The city o ...
highlands, and is navigable and unobstructed for a distance of above its junction with the Amazon. It has a total length of approximately , and is one of the longest tributaries of the Amazon.
The
Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve
The Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Médio Juruá) is an extractive reserve in the state of Amazonas Brazil.
Location
The Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Carauari in the state of Amazonas.
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, created in 1997, is on the left bank of the river as it meanders in a generally northeast direction through the municipality of
Carauari
Carauari is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 28,508 (2020) and its area is 25,767 km².
The city is served by Carauari Airport.
Environment
The town is in the Juruá-Purus moist forests ecoreg ...
.
The lower Juruá River forms the western boundary of the
Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve
The Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá) is an extractive reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It contains an area of almost untouched Amazon rainforest inhabited by communities that rely on manioc farm ...
, created in 2001. Since 2018 the lower portion of the river in Brazil has been designated as a protected
Ramsar site
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*** Seasonal Intermittent < 8 ha(Ts)
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