The Itaparaná River is a river of
Amazonas state in north-western
Brazil
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.
It is a tributary of the
Ipixuna River.
The river flows through the
Purus-Madeira moist forests ecoregion in its upper reaches.
It flows through the
Purus várzea
The Purus várzea (NT0156) is an ecoregion of seasonally flooded várzea forest in the central Amazon basin. It is part of the Amazon biome.
The ecoregion is home to a vegetation adapted to floods of up to that may last for eight months.
There ...
ecoregion, where it joins the Ipixuna shortly before that river joins the Purus River.
See also
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List of rivers of Amazonas
References
Sources
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Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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