Lago Jarí

	Lago Jarí The Jari River () is a river in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, a tributary of the Purus River. Course The basin of the Jari River, an important right tributary of the Purus in its middle course, as well as the natural resources and associated fish, is protected by the Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park, an protected area established in 2008. It then forms the eastern border of the Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve, established in 2003. 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 * List of rivers of Amazonas References Sources * * * Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{AmazonasB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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 the Purús Province (and its conformed Purús District), one of the four provinces of Peru in the Ucayali Region. Geography The Purus River rises in Peru. It defines the boundary between Peru and Brazil in the centre of the state of Acre, then runs for a short distance along the boundary of the Santa Rosa do Purus National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001 after it is joined by the Santa Rosa River. The Purus then flows north east through Manoel Urbano It runs through a continuous forest at the bottom of the great depression, lying between the Madeira River, which skirts the edge of the Brazilian sandstone plateau, and the Ucayali River, which hugs the base of the Andes. In the state of Amazonas the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Amazonas (Brazilian State) Amazonas () is a federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in the North Region, Brazil, North Region in the north-western corner of the country. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, largest Brazilian state by area and the list of the largest country subdivisions by area, ninth-largest country subdivision in the world with an area of 1,570,745.7 square kilometers. It is the largest country subdivision in South America, being greater than the areas of Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay combined. Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre (state), Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the departments of Colombia, Departments of Amazonas (Colombian department), Amazonas, Vaupés Department, Vaupés and Guainía Department, Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas State, Venezuela, Amazonas state in Venezuela, and the Loreto Region in Peru. Amazonas is named after the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Nascentes Do Lago Jari National Park Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park () is a national park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It protects an area of Amazon rainforest in the BR-319 highway area of influence. Location The Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park has an area of . The park is in the Amazon biome. The park covers an area west of the BR-319 highway and east of the Purus River, to the south of Lago Jari and to the south west of the Matupiri State Park. About 6% of the park is in the Beruri municipality and 94% in the Tapauá municipality, both of the state of Amazonas. The park protects the basin of the Jari River, an important right tributary of the Purus in its middle course, as well as the natural resources and associated fish. It is part of an important ecological corridor in the region between the Purus and Madeira rivers in combination with the Apurinã do Igarapé Tauamirim Indigenous Territory, Abufari Biological Reserve and Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve on the Purus River an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve () is a Sustainable development reserve (Brazil), sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) is divided between the municipalities of Tapauá (30.35%), Coari (1.37%), Anori (40.11%) and Beruri (28.17%) in the state of Amazonas. It covers an area of . The name comes from the Tupi language: ''pi'á'' (guts, heart or stomach) and ''wa'su'' (large, wide), and means "great heart of the Purus". There are about 85 communities of people in the reserve, who live by fishing, agriculture, hunting and extraction of timber and non-timber products. The RDS adjoins the Abufari Biological Reserve to the southwest and the Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park to the south. The southern part of the RDS surrounds the Itixi Mitari Indigenous Territory, and further north the RDS surrounds the Lago Aiapuá Indigenous Territory. The Purus Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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 a great variety of fish and birds, but relatively fewer mammals. Ground-dwelling mammals must migrate to higher ground during the flood season. Threats include logging, cattle farming, over-fishing and mercury pollution from gold mining. Location The Purus várzea is a low-lying region of the central Amazon basin that is seasonally flooded. It covers of eastern Colombia and western Brazil. It extends along most of the Juruá River, Juruá, central Purus River, Purus, and Caquetá (Japurá River, Japurá) rivers and their tributaries. In the east it reaches the confluence of the Japurá and Solimões River, Solimões Rivers. Urban centers in or around the region are Tefé, Tabatinga and Carauarí. To the southeast the varzea adjoins the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Rivers Of Amazonas (Brazilian State) A list of rivers in Amazonas ( 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. Amazonas is located entirely within the Amazon basin. By drainage basin * Amazon River (includes the Solimões River) Tapajós River * Juruena River ** Bararati River Nhamundá River * Piratucu River Mamuru River * Uaicurapa River Andirá River Paraná Urariá (Amazon and Madeira side channel) * Maués Açu River ** Urupadi River Amanã River Paracori River Parauari River * Apoquitaua River * Paraconi River * Abacaxis River ** Marimari River * Canumã River ** Mapiá Grande River Acari River Camaiú River Sucunduri River Uatumã River * Jatapu River Capucapu River * Pitinga River Urubu River Madeira River * Prêto do Igapó-Açu River Autaz-mirim River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]