The Ronuro River is a river of
Mato Grosso state in western
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
Xingu River
The Xingu River ( ; pt, Rio Xingu, ; Mẽbêngôkre: ''Byti'', ) is a river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in the Amazon basin, accounting for about 5% of its water.
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The river drains the
Rio Ronuro Ecological Station
Rio Ronuro Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica do Rio Ronuro) is an ecological station in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
It protects an area of contact between Amazon rainforest in the north and Cerrado semi-deciduous forest in the so ...
, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1998.
It also flows through the
Xingu Indigenous Park
The Xingu Indigenous Park (, pronounced ) is an indigenous territory of Brazil, first created in 1961 as a national park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Its official purposes are to protect the environment and the several tribes of Xingu in ...
.
[Kahn, Marina; Campanili, Maura (eds.). ]
Almanaque Socioambiental Parque Indígena do Xingu: 50 anos
'. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental, 2011.
See also
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List of rivers of Mato Grosso
List of rivers in Mato Grosso (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. Mato Grosso is divided by those streams that f ...
References
External links
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Mato Grosso
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