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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...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 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camaiú River
Camaiú River is a tributary of the Sucunduri River in the Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. The river flows through the Acari National Park created by president 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 w ... in 2016 in the last week before her provisional removal from office. See also * List of rivers of Amazonas References Brazilian Ministry of Transport Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{AmazonasBR-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucunduri State Park
Sucunduri State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Sucunduri) is a state park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Sucunduri State Park is in the municipality of Apuí, Amazonas. It has an area of . The Juruena River forms the eastern boundary of the park, separating it from the Juruena National Park in the state of Mato Grosso. To the north the Sucunduri State Park adjoins the Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve, Apuí State Forest, the portion of the Juruena National Park that lies in Amazonas and the Jatuarana National Forest. The park adjoins the Sucunduri State Forest to the west and the Igarapés do Juruena State Park in Mato Grosso to the south. History The Sucunduri State Park was created by Amazonas state governor decree 24.810 of 21 January 2005 with the objectives of preserving natural ecosystems of great relevance and scenic beauty, allowing scientific research, education, environmental interpretation, recreation in contact with nature and ecotourism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illegal Mining
Illegal mining is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission, in particular in absence of land rights, mining licenses, and exploration or mineral transportation permits. Illegal mining can be a subsistence activity, as is the case with artisanal mining, or it can belong to large-scale organized crime, spearheaded by illegal mining syndicates. On an international level, approximately 80 percent of small-scale mining operations can be categorized as illegal. Despite strategic developments towards " responsible mining," even big companies can be involved in illegal mineral digging and extraction, if only on the financing side. Regional Issues Sub-Saharan Africa Spurred by widespread poverty and a lack of alternative income-earning opportunities, illegal artisanal mining is a well-documented phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa. While legalization opportunities for artisanal and small scale mining are often available, inefficient government bureaucracy structures can m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juruena National Park
Juruena National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional do Juruena), declared in 2006, is the third largest national park of Brazil. It is located along the Juruena River, in the north of Mato Grosso state and the south of Amazonas state. It forms part of a corridor of protected areas that is meant to contain agricultural expansion into the Amazon rainforest. Location The park covers , mostly in the Amazon biome. It is the third largest in Brazil. It contains parts of the municipalities of Apuí and Maués in Amazonas, and Cotriguaçu, Nova Bandeirantes and Apiacás in Mato Grosso. It adjoins the Sucunduri State Park in the municipality of Apuí. The Igarapés do Juruena State Park to the west overlaps by almost 53% with the Juruena National Park. About 49% of the park is flat plains, 18% gently undulating, 21% undulating, and 10% strongly undulating. 1% is mountainous. Altitudes range from above sea level. The park holds 39 river sub-basins. The largest is that of the São To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans-Amazonian Highway
The Trans-Amazonian Highway (official designation BR-230, official name Rodovia Transamazônica), was introduced on September 27, 1972. It is 4,000 km long, making it the third longest highway in Brazil. It runs through the Amazon forest and the Brazilian states of Paraíba, Ceará, Piauí, Maranhão, Tocantins, Pará and Amazonas, from the proximities of Saboeiro up until the town of Lábrea. History The project was started by the military dictatorship that was in power from 1964 to 1985 out of their perceived need to guarantee control over the remote regions while encouraging economic engagement with the natural resources in the region. The highway was intended to integrate these regions with the rest of the country, and with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Another main goal of the project was to alleviate the effects of the drought affecting the Northeast region of the country by providing a route to largely empty land in the middle of the rainforest, which could be settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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