Manicoré River () is a river of
Amazonas state in north-western
Brazil
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. It is a
tributary
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of the
Madeira River and merges into this river about upstream from the town of
Manicoré.
The headwaters of the river are in the
Campos Amazônicos National Park, a protected area created in 2006 that holds an unusual enclave of
cerrado vegetation in the Amazon rainforest.
Further north the river defines part of the eastern boundary of the
Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area, created in April 2016 just before the provisional removal of president
Dilma Rousseff.
It then flows through the
Manicoré Biological Reserve, which was created at the same time.
See also
*
List of rivers of Amazonas
References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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