Mucuim River

Mucuim River
Native name	Rio Mucuim (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Purus River
• coordinates	6.540548°S 64.342590°W / -6.540548; -64.342590
Length	350 kilometres (220 mi)
Basin features
River system	Purus River

The Mucuim River (Portuguese: Rio Mucuim) is a river in Brazil, a tributary of the Purus River.

Course

The Mucuim river flows through the Mapinguari National Park, a 1,776,914 hectares (4,390,850 acres) conservation unit created in 2008. To the north of the national park it is crossed by the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230), then runs through the Balata-Tufari National Forest before joining the Purus. The river flows through the Purus-Madeira moist forests ecoregion in its upper reaches. It flows through the Purus várzea ecoregion before joining the Purus.

See also

• List of rivers of Amazonas

Sources

• Flona de Balata-Tufari Mapa Interativo (in Portuguese), ICMBio, archived from the original on 2016-08-17, retrieved 2016-06-03
• Sears, Robin, Northern South America: Northwestern Brazil (NT0157), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-16
• Unidade de Conservação: Parque Nacional Mapinguari (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-02
• Ziesler, R.; Ardizzone, G.D. (1979), "Amazon River System", The Inland waters of Latin America, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, ISBN 92-5-000780-9, archived from the original on 21 October 2013