The Curuá Una River is a river of
Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...
state in north-central
Brazil
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, a right tributary of the
Amazon River.
The river flows through the
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests ecoregion.
Part of the river basin is in the
Tapajós National Forest
The Tapajós National Forest () is a Brazilian national forest in the state of Pará, Brazil.
It supports sustainable exploitation of the natural resources in an area of Amazon rainforest.
Location
The Tapajós National Forest has an area of .
I ...
, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1974.
The
Moju River, a tributary of the Curuá-Una, rises in the national forest.
See also
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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
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Pará
Tributaries of the Amazon River
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