The Parauapebas River is a river of

Pará Pará is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state) ...

state in north-central

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 a tributary of the

Itacaiúnas River The Itacaiúnas River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. Part of the river basin is in the Tapirapé-Aquiri National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1989. See also *List of rivers of Pará List of rivers i ...

, which in turn is a tributary of the

Tocantins River The Tocantins River ( pt, Rio Tocantins, link=no , , Parkatêjê dialect, Parkatêjê: ''Pyti'' ɨˈti is a river in Brazil, the central fluvial artery of the country. In the Tupi language, its name means "toucan's beak" (''Tukã'' for "toucan ...

. The Parauapebas River is a blackwater river. Its basin is in the

Xingu–Tocantins–Araguaia moist forests The Xingu–Tocantins–Araguaia moist forests (NT0180) is an ecoregion in the eastern Amazon basin. It is part of the Amazon biome. The ecoregion is one of the most severely degraded of the Amazon region, suffering from large-scale deforestation ...

ecoregion.

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