Manicoré River

Manicoré River (Portuguese: Rio Manicoré) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River and merges into this river about 3 km (1.9 mi) upstream from the town of Manicoré.

Manicoré River
Native nameRio
Location
CountryBrazil
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationAmazonas state
Mouth 
 • coordinates
5.858936°S 61.328736°W / -5.858936; -61.328736
Length390[1]
Basin features
River systemMadeira River
Tributaries 
 • rightManicorezinho, Jatuarana

The headwaters of the river are in the Campos Amazônicos National Park, a 961,318 hectares (2,375,470 acres) protected area created in 2006 that holds an unusual enclave of cerrado vegetation in the Amazon rainforest.[2] Further north the river defines part of the eastern boundary of the 151,993 hectares (375,580 acres) Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area, created in April 2016 just before the provisional removal of president Dilma Rousseff.[3] It then flows through the 359,138 hectares (887,450 acres) Manicoré Biological Reserve, which was created at the same time.[4]

See also

References
  1. Ziesler, R.; Ardizzone, G.D. (1979). The Inland waters of Latin America. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 92-5-000780-9.
  2. Unidade de Conservação: Parque Nacional dos Campos Amazônicos (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-03
  3. APA dos Campos de Manicoré (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-13
  4. PARNA do Acari (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-12
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