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Acari River (Amazonas)
Acari River ( pt, Rio Acari) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. Course The river flows through the Acari National Park created by president Dilma Rousseff in 2016 in the last week before her provisional removal from office. It defines the eastern boundary of the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 2006. It joins the Sucunduri River from the left, and the downstream section is known as the Canumã River Canumã River ( pt, Rio Canumã) is a river in the Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is located east of the Madeira River and runs roughly parallel to it. It flows into the Paraná Urariá shortly before merging into the Madeira River (t .... See also * List of rivers of Amazonas References Sources * * Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{AmazonasBR-river-stub ...
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Canumã River
Canumã River ( pt, Rio Canumã) is a river in the Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is located east of the Madeira River and runs roughly parallel to it. It flows into the Paraná Urariá shortly before merging into the Madeira River (the short channel between Canumã River/Paraná Urariá and the Madeira River is known as the Paraná do Canumã). Through the Paraná Urariá it is also connected to several other smaller rivers and ultimately Paraná do Ramos (mean annual discharge 2930 m3/s) which is a side channel of the Amazon River itself. The Canumã has its source at the confluence of the Acari and Sucunduri River Sucunduri River ( pt, Rio Sucundurí) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil, one of the main headwaters of the Canumã River. Course The Sucunduri River rises in the Sucunduri State Park in the municipality of Apuí. The Monte ...s. The latter and Canumã can be considered as the upper and lower sections of a single river, in which c ...
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Amazonas (Brazilian State)
Amazonas () is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and the largest in South America, being greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. Entirely in the Western Hemisphere, it is the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere after Greenland, Nunavut and Alaska. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas state in Venezuela, and ...
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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 of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ...
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Acari National Park
Acari National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional do Acari) is a national park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Acari National Park covers parts of the municipalities of Apuí (11.77%), Borba (59.55%) and Novo Aripuanã (28.68%) in Amazonas. It is north of the BR-230 Trans-Amazonian Highway in the Apuí – Jacareacanga section. The Urupadi National Forest and the Alto Maués Ecological Station border the park to the east. It has an area of . It is in the Amazon biome. History The Acari National Park was created by federal decree on 11 May 2016. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio). The objective is to protect the biological diversity of the Acari, Camaiú, Sucunduri and Abacaxis rivers and their tributaries and the physical landscape, to ensure sustainability of the ecosystem services, to contribute to environmental stability in the region and to provide for development of recreational activities in contact with natu ...
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Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as chief of staff to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010. Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist in her youth and after the 1964 coup d'état joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972. by Bradley Brooks, Associated Press, 31 October 2010. Retrieved from Internet Archive 11 January 2014. After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with her husband Carlos Araújo. They both helped to found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in Rio Grande do Sul, and partic ...
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Juma Sustainable Development Reserve
The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Juma is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It supports sustainable extraction of the forest resources by the traditional population. It is the first in Brazil to be funded by a REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) Project. Location The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve (Juma RDS) is in the municipality of Novo Aripuanã in the state of Amazonas. It has an area of . The Mariepauá River, a tributary of the Madeira River, defines the western boundary of the reserve, and the Acari River defines the eastern boundary. The reserve extends north to the Madeira. The northern part of the Aripuanã River runs through the reserve before entering the Madeira near the municipal seat of Novo Aripuanã. The Arauá River, a tributary of the Aripuanã, also runs north through the reserve. The Aripuanã National Forest is to the south of the ...
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Sucunduri River
Sucunduri River ( pt, Rio Sucundurí) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil, one of the main headwaters of the Canumã River. Course The Sucunduri River rises in the Sucunduri State Park in the municipality of Apuí. The Monte Cristo rapids on the Sucunduri is an area with great numbers and diversity of animals and birds. In 2006 it was also the location of an illegal mining settlement. The Monte Cristo rapids and the Sucunduri River Falls (''Saltos do Rio Sucunduri'') are well-known attractions. The river flows through the Acari National Park created by president Dilma Rousseff in 2016 in the last week before her provisional removal from office. Part of the river's basin is in the Juruena National Park, one of the largest conservation units in Brazil. The Sucunduri basin occupies 10% of the park. The Trans-Amazonian Highway crosses the Sucunduri River. Further north it merges with the Acari and the downstream section is known as the Canumã River Canumã R ...
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List Of Rivers Of Amazonas (Brazilian State)
List of rivers in Amazonas (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. Amazonas is located entirely within the Amazon Basin. By Drainage Basin * Amazon River (includes Solimões) ** Tapajós River *** Juruena River **** Bararati River ** Nhamundá River *** Piratucu River ** Mamuru River *** Uaicurapa River ** Andirá River ** Paraná Urariá (Amazon and Madeira side channel) *** Maués Açu River **** Urupadi River **** Amanã River **** Paracori River **** Parauari River *** Apoquitaua River *** Paraconi River *** Abacaxis River **** Marimari River *** Canumã River **** Mapiá Grande River **** Acari River **** Camaiú River **** Sucunduri River ** Uatumã River *** Jatapu River **** Capucapu River *** Pitinga River ** Urubu River ** Madeira River *** Prêto do Igapó-Açu River **** Autaz-mirim River **** Tupana River **** Matupiri River ...
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