The Auati-Paraná Canal () is a natural canal of
Amazonas state in north-western
Brazil
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.
It is a
distributary
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that leaves the
Solimões River
Solimões () is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru. The Solimões flows for about 1,600 km (1,000 miles) through a floodplain about 80 km ...
and joins the
Japurá River
The Japurá River or Caquetá River is a long river in the Amazon basin. It rises in Colombia and flows eastward through Brazil to join the Amazon River.
Course
The river rises as the Caquetá River in the Andes in southwest Colombia.
The Caqu ...
.
Course
The Auati-Paraná, also called the Ati-Paraná or Ati-Paranã, is sometimes called a river, sometimes a ''paraná'' (
channel
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) and sometimes a canal. The last term seems most appropriate, since the natural canal leaves one river and joins another.
The canal divides the lower western Amazon plateau to the north from the Amazon plain.
The canal forms the boundary between the
Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve
The Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve () is an extractive reserve is Amazonas, Brazil.
Location
The Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Japurá (54.69%) and Fonte Boa (45.31%) in Amazonas.
It has an area ...
, created in 2001, on the north bank, and the
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve () in the Brazilian state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, near the city of Tefé, is a reserve near the village of Boca do Mamirauá. It includes mostly Amazon rainforest, Amazonian flooded f ...
on the south bank.
The canal is a body of white water, but almost all the streams that flow into it from the extractive reserve are black water.
See also
*
List of rivers of Amazonas
References
Sources
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Rivers of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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