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Casca River
The Casca River ( pt, Rio Casca) is a river of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It is a tributary of the Roncador River. Course The Casca River runs through the Rio da Casca Ecological Station from south to north. Further north the Casca river is dammed for the Casca Hydroelectric Plant. Still further north it joins the Roncador River in an arm of the Manso Dam. See also *List of rivers of Mato Grosso List of rivers in Mato Grosso (States of Brazil, Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. Mato Grosso is divided by tho ... References Sources * Rivers of Mato Grosso {{MatoGrosso-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roncador River (Mato Grosso)
The Roncador River ( pt, Rio Roncador) is a river of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It is a tributary of the Manso River. Course The Casca River joins the Roncador River in an arm of the Manso Dam. See also *List of rivers of Mato Grosso List of rivers in Mato Grosso (States of Brazil, Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. Mato Grosso is divided by tho ... References Sources * Rivers of Mato Grosso {{MatoGrosso-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapada Dos Guimarães
Chapada dos Guimarães is a municipality located in central Brazil, 62 km from the city of Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso State. It is home to the Chapada dos Guimarães National Park. Outside this town is the geographic center of South America. The municipality contains 77% of the Rio da Casca Ecological Station The Rio da Casca Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica do Rio da Casca) is an ecological station in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It protects a partly deforested area of savanna. Location The Rio da Casca Ecological Station (ESEC) is ..., a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1994. The municipal seat contains the Quineira State Park, created in 2006. References External links Chapada dos Guimarães website Municipalities in Mato Grosso {{matoGrosso-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring states (from west clockwise) are: Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. The state is roughly 82.2% of the size of its southwest neighbor, the nation of Bolivia. A state with a flat landscape that alternates between vast '' chapadas'' and plain areas, Mato Grosso contains three main ecosystems: the Cerrado, the Pantanal and the Amazon rainforest. The Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, with caves, grottoes, tracks, and waterfalls, is one of its tourist attractions. The extreme northwest of the state has a small part of the Amazonian forest. The Xingu Indigenous Park and the Araguaia River are in Mato Grosso. Farther south, the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, is the habitat for nearly one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Da Casca Ecological Station
The Rio da Casca Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica do Rio da Casca) is an ecological station in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It protects a partly deforested area of savanna. Location The Rio da Casca Ecological Station (ESEC) is divided between the municipalities of Chapada dos Guimarães (76.61%), Cuiabá (10.84%) and Campo Verde Campo Verde is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. The municipality contains 13% of the Rio da Casca Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1994. History The region b ... (12.52%) in the state of Mato Grosso. The ESEC has two parts, one with an area of and the other with an area of . The total area is . It lies to the east of the MT-450 state highway and is south of the BR-251 federal highway. History The Rio da Casca Ecological Station was created by state governor decree 6.437 of 27 May 1994. The consultative council was created on 15 December 2014. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manso Dam
The Manso Dam ( pt, Represa de Manso) is a hydroelectric dam on the Manso River, a tributary of the Cuiabá River, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Completed in 1999, it generates enough electricity for 300,000 people, and the reservoir is a tourist attraction. The dam displaced many families from the area now covered by the reservoir, and the submerged, decaying vegetation has had negative impact on water quality in and below the dam, affecting edible fish stocks. Location The dam impounds the Manso River in the upper Paraguay sub-basin of the Paraná basin. The reservoir is in the municipalities of Chapada dos Guimarães and Rosário Oeste in the midwest region of Mato Grosso. It is the largest in the Paraopeba system. The dam is from Cuiabá, the state capital, along good roads. It is about above sea level. The lake has become a tourist attraction. Structure The dam project was launched in 1974, when a flood of the Cuiabá River left more than 20% of the population of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Mato Grosso
List of rivers in Mato Grosso (Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. Mato Grosso is divided by those streams that flow north to the Amazon and east to the Tocontins rivers and those that flow south to the Paraná river. All rivers in Mato Grosso ultimately drain to the Atlantic Ocean. By Drainage Basin Amazon Basin * ''Amazon River'' (Pará, Amazonas) ** Xingu River *** Iriri River **** Iriri Novo River *** Ribeirão da Paz *** Liberdade River *** Auaiá-Miçu River *** Huaiá-Miçu River *** Arraias River **** Manissauá-Miçu River ***** Azul River *** Suia-Miçu River *** Atelchu River **** Ronuro River ***** Jabotá River **** Ferro River *** Tamitatoale River *** Ribeirão Auila *** Curisevo River **** Kevuaieli River **** Pacuneiro River *** Sete de Setembro River *** Culuene River **** Couto de Magalhães River ** ''Tapajós Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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