The Auati-Paraná Canal ( pt, Canal Auati-Paraná) is a natural canal of
Amazonas state in north-western
Brazil
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.
It is a
distributary
A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...
that leaves the
Solimões River
Solimões () is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru.
Geography
The Amazon / Solimões river just above the confluence of the Solimões and ...
and joins the
Japurá River
The Japurá River or Caquetá River is a river about long in the Amazon basin. It rises in Colombia and flows eastward through Brazil to join the Amazon River.
Course
The river rises as the Caquetá River in the Andes in southwest Colombia.
Th ...
.
Course
The Auati-Paraná, also called the Ati-Paraná or Ati-Paranã, is sometimes called a river, sometimes a ''paraná'' (
channel
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Geography
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Australia
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) and sometimes a canal. The last term seems most appropriate, since the natural canal leaves one river and joins another.
The canal divides the lower western Amazon plateau to the north from the Amazon plain.
The canal forms the boundary between the
Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve
The Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Auatí-Paraná) is an extractive reserve is Amazonas, Brazil.
Location
The Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Japurá (54.69%) and Fonte ...
, created in 2001, on the north bank, and the
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá) in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, near the city of Tefé, is a reserve near the village of Boca do Mamirauá. It includes mostly Amazonian ...
on the south bank.
The canal is a body of white water, but almost all the streams that flow into it from the extractive reserve are black water.
See also
*
List of rivers of Amazonas
References
Sources
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Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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