The Anajás River () is a river of
Marajó
Marajó () is a large coastal island in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is the main and largest of the islands in the Marajó Archipelago. Marajó Island is separated from the mainland by Marajó Bay, Pará River, smaller rivers (especially M ...
, which itself is an island in the mouth of the
Amazon
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* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
. It is located in the state
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 st ...
in northern
Brazil
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. Its source is in the swamp areas called ''
mondongos The mondongos are low-lying swamp fields in the north of the island Marajó in the Brazilian state Pará.
They are flooded during the wet season, which occurs between January and May.
The mondongos occur in the transition zone between the tropical ...
'' that are normally flooded during the wet season.
In the 1980s, there were plans to connect the Anajás to the
Anabiju River through a canal.
See also
*
List of rivers of Pará
List of rivers in Pará ( Brazilian state).
The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in Pará drain to the ...
References
Rivers of Pará
Tributaries of the Amazon River
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