Aripuanã River () is a river in the
Mato Grosso
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and
Amazonas states in north-western
Brazil
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. It is a tributary of the
Madeira River
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in the
Amazon Basin
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. The town of
Novo Aripuanã is located on its banks where it merges into the Madeira River. The town of
Aripuanã is also on its banks, but on the upper (southern) section of the river.
The Aripuanã is a
clearwater river.
Course
In Mato Grosso to the south of the border with Amazonas the river defines the western boundary of the
Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002.
To the north of the Amazonas border it flows through the
Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 2005.
Further north in Amazonas the
Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) crosses the Aripuanã.
North of the highway the river flows through the
Aripuanã National Forest, a sustainable development unit created in 2016 in the last week before the provisional removal of president
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the ...
.
It then flows through the
Juma Sustainable Development Reserve before meeting the Madeira.
There are four
dam
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s on the river (
Dardanelos Dam,
Faxinal I and
Faxinal II at Aripuanã town, and
Juína Dam west of
Juína) and a fifth is planned (
Prainha Dam on the middle Aripuanã River). These have impacted the environment and caused conflicts with
indigenous people
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territ ...
.
[Ecolnews:]
Usina de Dardanelos, crime ambiental premeditado e consolidado.
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See also
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List of rivers of Amazonas
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List of rivers of Mato Grosso
References
Sources
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Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
Rivers of Mato Grosso
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