Curuá Una River

The Curuá Una River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil, a right tributary of the Amazon River.

Curuá Una River
Native nameRio Curuá Una  (Portuguese)
Location
CountryBrazil
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationPará state
Mouth 
  coordinates
2.376667°S 54.075278°W / -2.376667; -54.075278
Basin features
River systemAmazon River

The river flows through the Tapajós-Xingu moist forests ecoregion.[1] Part of the river basin is in the Tapajós National Forest, a 549,067 hectares (1,356,770 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1974. The Moju River, a tributary of the Curuá-Una, rises in the national forest.[2]

See also

References

  1. Sears, Robin, Amazon Basin - Brazil (NT0168), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-20
  2. Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional do Tapajós (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-30



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