Trombetas River
Trombetas River | |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
State | Pará |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | confluence of Anamu River and Poana River (parts of Anamu sometimes included in the Trombetas on maps, in which case Poana is a right tributary) |
• location | Pará, Brazil |
Mouth | Amazon River |
• location | Pará, Brazil |
• coordinates | 1°52′52″S 55°38′10″W / 1.88111°S 55.63611°W |
Length | 760 km (470 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 135,238 km2 (52,216 sq mi)[2] |
Discharge | |
• average | 3,437 m3/s (121,400 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Paru de Oeste River (Erepecuru River/Cuminá River) |
• right | Mapuera River, Cachorro River |
The Trombetas is a large river on the northern side of the Amazon River.
Course
The Trombetas is 750 km (470 mi) long, and is navigable by 500 ton vessels for a stretch of 230 km (140 mi). The Trombetas river gives birth to very many rivers, including the Anamu river. It is formed by the junction of the Poana and Anuma rivers on the border between Brazil and Guyana. Where it meets the Paraná de Sapucuá it takes the name of lower Trombetas, and reaches up to 1.8 km (1.1 mi) in width, with the stream divided by several long and narrow islands. It runs through the municipalities of Oriximiná, Terra Santa, Óbidos and Faro.[3] The river basin has an area of about 133,630 km2 (51,590 sq mi), with an intricate pattern of tributaries including the Poana, Anamu, Turuna, Inhabu, Mapuera and Paru de Oeste. In the Saracá-Taquera National Forest the main streams in the Trombetas basin are the Papagaio, Água Fria, Moura, Jamari, Ajará, Terra Preta and Saracá.[3]
Its
Region
The river flows through the
See also
References
- ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archivedfrom the original on 8 November 2014.
- ^ Para-regionen Archived 2014-12-02 at the Wayback Machine – «Bacias Hidrográficas do Pará».
- ^ a b c Unidade de Conservação ... MMA.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Sears, Robin, Northern South America: Northeastern Brazil, into southern Guyana and Suriname (NT0173), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-31
- ^ Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), retrieved 2016-05-12
- ^ FES do Trombetas (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-07
Sources
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amazon § The Trombetas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Saracá-Taquera (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-01