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Curuçá River (Pará)
The Curuçá River ( pt, Rio Curuçá) is a river in the state of Pará, Brazil, that flows into the north Atlantic Ocean. Course The river flows from south to north past the town of Curuçá, Pará. It is joined from the left by the Furo Maripanema, an arm of the Mocajuba River. The mangroves along the river are protected by the Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve. See also *List of rivers of Pará List of rivers in Pará ( Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in Pará drain to the ... References Sources * Rivers of Pará Tributaries of the Amazon River {{Pará-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at , second only to Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber (extracted from natural rubber tree groves), cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, and minerals ... [...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] |
Curuçá
Curuçá is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. Curuçá was founded in 1775, but only became a city in 1895. Some of the municipality was split off into separate municipalities in 1939, 1955 and 1991. The Curuçá River flows from south to north through the municipality, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. The municipality contains the Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve, created in 2002, which protects the waters and banks of the estuary. See also * List of municipalities in Pará This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Pará (PA), located in the North Region of Brazil. Pará is divided into 144 municipalities, which are grouped into 22 microregions, which are grouped into 6 mesoregions. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mocajuba River
The Mocajuba River ( pt, Rio Mocajuba) is a short river in the state of Pará, Brazil. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Course The village of São João da Ponta lies on the left bank of the river. The Mocajuba River flows north past the Mocapajuba Marine Extractive Reserve to the west and the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve to the southeast and the Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve The Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Mãe Grande de Curuçá) is a coastal marine Extractive reserve (Brazil), extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive ... to the east. An arm of the river, the Furo Maripanema, flows northeast and joins the Curuçá River. Environment Vegetation around the Rio Macajuba is almost all forest . The area around Rio Macajuba has low population with 19 people per square kilometre. The area has a monsoon climate. The average temperature is . The hottest m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mãe Grande De Curuçá Extractive Reserve
The Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Mãe Grande de Curuçá) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Curuçá, Pará. It has an area of . The Curuçá River flows through the reserve from south to north, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is joined from the left by the Furo Maripanema, an arm of the Mocajuba River. The reserve adjoins the Mocapajuba Marine Extractive Reserve and São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve to the west, and the Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve and Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve to the east. The climate is humid tropical, with an average temperature of about . The rainy season is from January to August. The reserve contains typical mangrove, salt marsh and riparian vegetation. Vegetation is mostly secondary, due to intense deforestation, with mangroves along the coasts. The West Indian mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Pará
List of rivers in Pará ( Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in Pará drain to the Atlantic Ocean, the majority of the state is in the Amazon Basin. By Drainage Basin * Amazon River ** Cajari River ** Anajás River *** Cururu River *** Moções River ** Jacaré River *** Aramá River **** Mapuá River *** Furo do Tajapuru (connects to Pará River) **** Da Laguna River (Pauxis River) *** De Breves River (connects to Pará River) ** Baquiá Preto River ** Jari River *** Carecuru River *** Ipitinga River ** Xingu River *** Jaraucu River *** Acarai River *** Tucurui River *** Bacajá River *** Bacajaí River *** Itata River *** Iriri River **** Novo River **** Carajarí River **** Curuá River ***** Baú River ***** Curuaés River **** Catete River **** Xinxim River **** Chiché River **** Iriri Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Pará
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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