The Pará River (Portuguese: Rio Pará), also called Parauaú River, Jacaré Grande River, Marajó River Channel, Macacos River Channel, Santa Maria River Channel and Bocas Bay, is a watercourse and immense estuarine complex that functions as a canal between the rivers Amazon (Amazon delta), Tocantins, Campina Grande (or Portel Bay) and Marajó Bay, in addition to numerous other smaller rivers. It can also be considered a distributary channel of the Tocantins River.
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Pará River | |
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![]() View of the Pará River in Brazil | |
Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Pará state |
Length | 320 km (200 mi) |
Basin size | 1,000,000 km2 (390,000 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Confluence of Tocantins River, Marajó Bay (Basin size 72,817 km2 (28,115 sq mi) |
• average | 9,249 m3/s (326,600 cu ft/s)[1] |
Discharge | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean, Marajó Bay (near mouth) |
• average | 20,946 m3/s (739,700 cu ft/s)[2] ~664 km3/a (21,000 m3/s)[3] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Breves channel |
• right | Tocantins, Guamá |
It is located in the state of Pará, Brazil. It presents muddy and turbid waters, rich in sediments originating from its source rivers.
Runs for approximately 64 kilometres (40 mi), around the west and south of the island of Marajó. Belém, the state capital of Pará, is located near the south bank of the river.
Previously academic research has come to consider this watercourse as a distributary channel of the Amazon River. However, this statement is currently considered unlikely, since recent studies have shown the small contribution of the waters of the Amazon River to the formation of the Pará River,[4] with a greater contribution from the Tocantins River.
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