The Manso River ( pt, Rio Manso) is a river in the
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighboring ...
state of western
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It is a tributary of the
Cuiabá River
The Cuiabá River (Portuguese: ''Rio Cuiabá'') is a Brazilian river in the western state of Mato Grosso that flows in the Río de la Plata Basin. It is a tributary of the São Lourenço River.
Course
In its upper reaches the Cuiabá River flows ...
, and is approximately 850 kilometers long.
The river is impounded by the
Manso Dam
The Manso Dam ( pt, Represa de Manso) is a hydroelectric dam on the Manso River, a tributary of the Cuiabá River, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Completed in 1999, it generates enough electricity for 300,000 people, and the reservoir is a t ...
in
Rosário Oeste
Rosário Oeste is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.
The municipality contains part of the Águas do Cuiabá Ecological Station, a fully protected conservation unit in the cerrado biome.
See also
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, Mato Grosso, creating a reservoir to power a 92 MW hydroelectric power plant.
See also
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List of rivers of Mato Grosso
List of rivers in Mato Grosso (States of Brazil, 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. Mato Grosso is divided by tho ...
References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Mato Grosso
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