Curuá River (Amazon River tributary)

Curuá River
Curuá River (Amazon River tributary) (Brazil)
Native name	Rio Curuá (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Pará state
• coordinates	1.921326°S 55.108533°W / -1.921326; -55.108533
Discharge
• average	550 m^3/s (19,000 cu ft/s)

The Curuá River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil.

The river basin lies partly within the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[1] Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve.[2] The river is also fed by streams in the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.[3]

See also

• List of rivers of Pará

References

1. Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), archived from the original on 2020-09-26, retrieved 2016-05-12
2. Plano de Manejo da Reserva Biológica Maicuru Resumo Executivo (PDF), Belém: SEMA: Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente, May 2011, p. 8, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-20, retrieved 2016-05-14
3. Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Mulata (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-01

• Brazilian Ministry of Transport