Aripuanã is a
municipality
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in the
state
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of
Mato Grosso in the
Central-West Region of
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 located on the banks of the
Aripuanã River
Aripuanã River ( pt, Rio Aripuanã) is a river in the Mato Grosso and Amazonas states in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River in the Amazon Basin. The town of Novo Aripuanã is located on its banks where it merges into t ...
.
The city is served by
Aripuanã Airport.
The municipality contains the
Rio Flor do Prado Ecological Station, a fully protected environmental unit created in 2003.
It also holds part of the
Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use unit created in 1996.
References
Municipalities in Mato Grosso
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