Guaporé River
Guaporé River Iténez River | |
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Parecis plateau | |
• location | Mato Grosso, Brazil |
• coordinates | 14°35′58″S 58°57′11″W / 14.59944°S 58.95306°W |
• elevation | 631 m (2,070 ft) |
Mouth | Mamoré River |
• location | Brazil/Bolivia |
• coordinates | 11°53′15″S 65°1′53″W / 11.88750°S 65.03139°W |
• elevation | 131 m (430 ft) |
Length | 1,260 km (780 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 341,000 km2 (132,000 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Near mouth |
• average | (1985–2013)2,430 m3/s (86,000 cu ft/s)[2] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Cabixi |
Guaporé River (
border between Brazil and Bolivia
.
The Guaporé is part of the
Beni savanna region.[3]
It forms the border of the 615,771 hectares (1,521,600 acres) Guaporé Biological Reserve, and is fed by rivers originating in the reserve, the São Miguel, Branco, São Simão, Massaco and Colorado.[4]
About 260 fish species are known from the Guaporé River basin, and about 25 of these are
See also
References
- ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archivedfrom the original on 21 October 2013.
- S2CID 133578964 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ Robin Sears and Robert Langstroth. "Central South America: Northern Bolivia". Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands. WWF. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Biológica do Guaporé (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-04-26
- ^ Hales, J., and P. Petry (2013). Guapore - Itenez. Freshwater Ecoregions of the World. Retrieved 28 February 2013
- ^ Ohara, W.M.; and F.C.T. Lima (2015). Moenkhausia uirapuru, a new species from the upper rio Guaporé, Chapada dos Parecis, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Teleostei: Characidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 26(2): 159-170.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Hyphessobrycon megalopterus" in FishBase. May 2013 version.
- ^ Ziegler, M.F. (29 April 2013). Estudo descobre 78 novas espécies de peixes no Rio Madeira. Archived 2018-03-07 at the Wayback Machine Ultimosegundo.com. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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