The Curuá River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil.
Curuá River | |
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Native name | Rio Curuá (Portuguese) |
Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Pará state |
• coordinates | 1.921326°S 55.108533°W / -1.921326; -55.108533 |
Discharge | |
• average | 550 m3/s (19,000 cu ft/s) |
The river basin lies partly within the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[1] Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve.[2] The river is also fed by streams in the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.[3]
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