The Rio Verde (
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for "green river") is a river of
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
state in southeastern
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 ...
.
Course
The Rio Verde basin is in the
Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station
The Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica da Juréia-Itatins) is an ecological station (ESEC) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It fully protects a well-preserved area of Atlantic Forest and associated ecosystems along th ...
, in the municipality of Iguape, São Paulo.
The river rises in the
Juréia Massif
The Juréia Massif ( pt, Serra da Juréia) is an isolated group of mountains on the coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The mountains hold a well-preserved remnant of Atlantic Forest, and are contained in the fully protected Juréia-Itatins E ...
, which descends steeply to the Atlantic Ocean to the south east.
The Rio Verde has clear water fed by the waterfalls of Juréia.
Conservation
In the late 1970s the Department of the Environment planned to develop a "green" housing project on the banks of the Rio Verde.
The project was cancelled in the 1980s when the Empresa Nuclebrás Brasileira decided to build the Iguape 4 and Iguape 5 power plants in a area that included the entire Serra da Juréia. By law, the area surrounding the nuclear power plant would have to be made an
ecological station.
The power plant project was abandoned but the Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station was created on 20 January 1986, covering the Juréia Massif and the entire watershed of the Una do Prelado River.
See also
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List of rivers of São Paulo
List of rivers in São Paulo (Brazilian State).
The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in São Paulo dra ...
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Rivers of São Paulo (state)