Tarauacá River
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Tarauacá River | |
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Native name | Rio Tarauacá (Portuguese) |
Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Acre state |
Mouth | |
• location | Juruá River, Amazonas state |
• coordinates | 6°41′43″S 69°45′52″W / 6.695257°S 69.764563°W |
Basin features | |
River system | Juruá River |
Tributaries | |
• left | Acurauá River |
Tarauacá River (Portuguese: Rio Tarauacá is a river of Amazonas and Acre states in western Brazil. The Rio Tarauacá is a tributary of the Juruá River, which itself flows into the Amazon.
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.[1] The Brazilian cities of Tarauacá and Eirunepé lie along the banks of the Tarauacá River further east.
See also
References
- ^ RESEX do Alto Tarauacá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-08-07
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