Tarauacá River ( pt, Rio Tarauacá is a river of
Amazonas and
Acre states in western
Brazil
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. The ''Rio Tarauacá'' is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...
of the
Juruá River
The Juruá River (Portuguese ''Rio Juruá''; Spanish ''Río Yuruá'') is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristic ...
, which itself flows into the
Amazon
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* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
.
Course
The headwaters of the Tarauacá are located near the Brazilian border with Peru.
It is upper reaches it flows from south to north through the
Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve, created in 2000.
The Brazilian cities of
Tarauacá
Tarauacá () is a municipality located in the northwest of the Brazilian state
The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation a ...
and
Eirunepé lie along the banks of the Tarauacá River further east.
See also
*
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 ...
*
List of rivers of Amazonas
References
Rivers of Acre (state)
Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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