Curuçá River is a river of
Amazonas state in northwestern
Brazil. It is entirely within the
municipality of
Atalaia do Norte
Atalaia do Norte is the most western municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. As of 2020, its population was 20,398 and its area is 76,355 km², thus making it the third largest municipality in Amazonas and the seventh largest in Braz ...
. Curuçá is a tributary of the
Javary River.
1930 Curuçá River event
On August 13, 1930, the area near latitude 5° S and longitude 71.5° W experienced a
meteoric
air burst
An air burst or airburst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target. The principal military advantage of an air burst over ...
, also known as the
Brazilian
Tunguska event. The mass of the meteorite was estimated at between , with an energy release estimated between 0.1 and 5
megatons
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion. The is a unit of energy defined by that convention to be , which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a m ...
, significantly smaller than the Tunguska Event.
[*Reza, Ramiro de la]
O evento do Curuçá: bólidos caem no Amazonas (The Curuçá Event: Bolides Fall in the Amazon)
, Rio de Janeiro: National Observatory. Retrieved from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas website.
*Reza, Ramiro de la; Martini, P. R.; Brichta, A.; Lins de Barros, H.; Serra, P.R.M.
The Event Near The Curuçá River
presented at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 67th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, August 2–6, 2004. Retrieved from Universities Space Research Association (USRA) website, Columbia, MD.
*Lienhard, John H
Meteorite at Curuçá
The Engines of Our Ingenuity, University of Houston with KUHF-FM Houston.
*McFarland, John.
The Day the Earth Trembled
, Armagh, Northern Ireland: Armagh Observatory website, last revised on November 10, 2009.
See also
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Curuçá
Curuçá is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.
Curuçá was founded in 1775, but only became a city in 1895.
Some of the municipality was split off into separate municipalities in 1939, 1955 and 1991.
The Cur ...
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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 Ba ...
References
Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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