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Solimões–Japurá Moist Forests
The Solimões-Japurá moist forests (NT0163) is an ecoregion in northwest Brazil and eastern Peru and Colombia in the Amazon biome. It has a hot climate with high rainfall throughout the year, and holds one of the most diverse collections of fauna and flora in the world. The ecoregion is relatively intact. Location The Solimões-Japurá moist forests has an area of divided between Colombia, Brazil and Peru. The northern boundary of the western portion in Colombia is defined by the Caqueta River. The Caqueta separates the ecoregion from the Caquetá moist forests to the north. The Caqueta becomes the Japurá River when it crosses the border with Brazil, and the Japurá (or the Purus várzea along the Japurá) defines the northern boundary in Brazil to the point where the Japurá meets the Solimões River. The Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests lies to the north of the Japurá. The Purus várzea and then the Iquitos várzea along the Solimões define the southern boundary in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leticia, Amazonas
Leticia () is the southernmost city in the Republic of Colombia, capital of the department of Amazonas, Colombia's southernmost town (4.09° south 69.57° west) and one of the major ports on the Amazon river. It has an elevation of 96 meters (315') above sea level and an average temperature of 27 °C (80.6 °F). Leticia has long been Colombia's shipping point for tropical fish for the aquarium trade. Leticia has approximately 48,144 inhabitants on the left bank of the Amazon river, and is located at the point where Colombia, Brazil and Peru come together in an area called Tres Fronteras. A long-standing border dispute involving Leticia, between Colombia and Peru, was decided in 1934 by the League of Nations after these two nations were engulfed in an armed conflict known as the Colombia-Peru War. History Early history and etymology Early Leticia history mentions a Portuguese explorer who, after becoming lost on the Amazon, died of starvation at the present site of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napo River
The Napo River ( es, Río Napo) is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the east Andean volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi. The total length is . The river drains an area of . The mean annual discharge is (Mazán District, Mazán). Geography Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every piece of ground. From the north it is joined by the Coca River, having its sources in the gorges of Cayambe volcano on the equator, and also a powerful river, the Aguarico River, Aguarico having its headwaters between Cayambe and the Colombia frontier. From the west, it receives a secondary tributary, the Curaray River, Curaray, from the Andes, Andean slopes, between Cotopaxi and the Tungurahua volcano. From its Coca branch to the mouth of the Curaray the Napo is full of snags and shelving sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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