The Mucuim River ( pt, Rio Mucuim) is a river 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 ...
, a tributary of the
Purus River
The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and ...
.
Course
The Mucuim river flows through the
Mapinguari National Park
Mapinguari National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional Mapinguari) is a national park in the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil.
It covers a large area of Amazon rainforest. The boundaries have been adjusted several times.
Location
The Mapinguari ...
, a conservation unit created in 2008.
To the north of the national park it is crossed by the
Trans-Amazonian Highway
The Trans-Amazonian Highway (official designation BR-230, official name Rodovia Transamazônica), was introduced on September 27, 1972. It is 4,000 km long, making it the third longest highway in Brazil. It runs through the Amazon forest and ...
(BR-230), then runs through the
Balata-Tufari National Forest
The Balata-Tufari National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional de Balata-Tufari) is a national forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
It was created to support sustainable extraction of forest products such as timber subject to restrictions and reg ...
before joining the Purus.
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 is ...
ecoregion before joining the Purus.
See also
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List of rivers of Amazonas
References
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Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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