Rio Envira is a river in
Acre state
Acre () is a state located in the west of the North Region of Brazil and the Amazonia Legal. Located in the westernmost part of the country, at a two-hour time difference from Brasília, Acre is bordered clockwise by the Brazilian states of Am ...
in
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 ...
. The
Rio Jaminauá is one of its tributaries. It is a tributary of the
Tarauacá River
Tarauacá River ( pt, Rio Tarauacá is a river of Amazonas and Acre states in western Brazil. The ''Rio Tarauacá'' is a tributary of the Juruá River, which itself flows into the Amazon.
Course
The headwaters of the Tarauacá are located nea ...
.
The river defines the northwest boundary of the
Santa Rosa do Purus National Forest
The Santa Rosa do Purus National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional de Santa Rosa do Purus) is a national forest in the state of Acre, Brazil.
Location
The Santa Rosa do Purus National Forest is in the municipality of Feijó in the state of Acre.
I ...
, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.
It flows in a north of northeast direction from the park, passing under the
BR-364
BR-364 is an inter-state highway in Brazil connecting the southeast state of São Paulo to the western state of Acre. The highway was opened in the 1960s and paved in the 1980s. It has brought economic development and population growth in the Amaz ...
highway and flowing north into
Amazonas state, where it joins the Tarauacá just south of the settlement of
Envira.
See also
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List of rivers of Acre
List of rivers in Acre (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. Acre is located entirely within the Amazon Basin.
By ...
References
Rivers of Acre (state)
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