Vargem do Braço River

Vargem do Braço River Vargem do Cedro River Pilões River
Scenery in the community of Vargem do Braço near the river mouth.
Native name	Rio Vargem do Braço (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Cubatão River, Morro da Pipa, Santa Catarina
• coordinates	27°42′23″S 48°42′6″W
Basin features
River system	Cubatão River

The Vargem do Braço River (Portuguese: Rio Vargem do Braço, also known as Rio Vargem do Cedro[1] and Rio Pilões[2]) is a river of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Course

The Vargem do Braço River rises in the lushly-forested Serra do Tabuleiro State Park, a 84,130 hectares (207,900 acres) protected area created in 1975.[3] The Serra do Tabuleiro, with altitudes above 1,200 metres (3,900 ft), is the largest mountain in the east-central portion of the state.[4] The river is the main source of water for the greater Florianópolis metropolitan region.[4] The river seems to have flowed north-northwest until quite recently, when a major tectonic event forced it to change its course. It now flows east-northeast to enter the Cubatão River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean.[5]

See also

• List of rivers of Santa Catarina
• List of rivers of Brazil

References

1. Rio Vargem do Braço at GeoNames
2. "Relatório anual de qualidade da água distribuída" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Companhia Catarinense de Águas e Saneamento. 20 February 2017. O Rio Vargem do Braço, conhecido como Pilões)
3. Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro – FATMA.
4. José Pedro de Paiva Reis & Edison Ramos Tomazzoli 2010, p. 87.
5. José Pedro de Paiva Reis & Edison Ramos Tomazzoli 2010, p. 88.

Sources

• José Pedro de Paiva Reis; Edison Ramos Tomazzoli (September 2010), "Evidências de neotectônica na bacia do Rio Vargem do Braço, SC", Revista de Geografia (in Portuguese), VIII SINAGEO (1), Recife: UFPE – DCG/NAPA, retrieved 2016-06-11
• Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro (in Portuguese), FATMA: Fundação do meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-11