Curuá River (Amazon River tributary)

The Curuá River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil.

Curuá River
Curuá River (Amazon River tributary) is located in Brazil
Curuá River (Amazon River tributary)
Curuá River (Amazon River tributary) (Brazil)
Native nameRio Curuá (Portuguese)
Location
CountryBrazil
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationPará state
 • coordinates1°55′17″S 55°06′31″W / 1.921326°S 55.108533°W / -1.921326; -55.108533
Discharge 
 • average550 m3/s (19,000 cu ft/s)

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.[1] Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve.[2] 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.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), archived from the original on 2020-09-26, retrieved 2016-05-12
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Mulata (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-01