Curuçá River is a river of Amazonas state in northwestern Brazil.[3] It flows entirely within the municipality of Atalaia do Norte. Curuçá is a left tributary of the Javary River.
| Curuçá River | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, Atalaia do Norte, State of Amazonas |
| • location | Sierra del Divisor |
| • coordinates | 6°53′19.3776″S 72°58′9.8004″W / 6.888716000°S 72.969389000°W |
| • elevation | 180 m (590 ft) |
| Mouth | Javary River |
• coordinates | 4°26′47″S 71°24′16″W / 4.44639°S 71.40444°W |
• elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Length | 530 km (330 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 24,351 km2 (9,402 sq mi)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Seringal Santa Maria, Amazonas (near mouth) |
| • average | (Period: 1970-1996) 942 m3/s (33,300 cu ft/s)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Pardo |
| • right | Arrojo |
1930 Curuçá River event
editOn August 13, 1930, the area near latitude 5° S and longitude 71.5° W experienced a meteoric air burst, also known as the Brazilian Tunguska event. The mass of the meteorite was estimated at between 1,000 and 25,000 short tons (910 and 22,680 t), with an energy release estimated between 0.1 and 5 megatons, significantly smaller than the Tunguska Event.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ziesler, R.; Ardizzone, G.D. (1979). "Amazon River System". The Inland waters of Latin America. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014.
- ^ a b Michael, T. Coe; Marcos, Heil Costa; Aurélie, Botta; Charon, Birkett (23 Aug 2002). "Long-term simulations of discharge and floods in the Amazon Basin". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.549.3854.
- ^ Amazon Region Map, Brazilian Ministry of Transport.
- ^ *Reza, Ramiro de la. O evento do Curuçá: bólidos caem no Amazonas (The Curuçá Event: Bolides Fall in the Amazon) Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: National Observatory. Retrieved from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas website.
- Reza, Ramiro de la; Martini, P. R.; Brichta, A.; Lins de Barros, H.; Serra, P.R.M. The Event Near The Curuçá River, presented at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 67th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, August 2–6, 2004. Retrieved from Universities Space Research Association (USRA) website, Columbia, MD.
- Lienhard, John H. Meteorite at Curuçá, The Engines of Our Ingenuity, University of Houston with KUHF-FM Houston.
- McFarland, John. The Day the Earth Trembled Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, Armagh, Northern Ireland: Armagh Observatory website, last revised on November 10, 2009.