Auati-Paraná Canal

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Auati-Paraná Canal
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Native nameCanal Auati-Paraná (Portuguese)
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Country Brazil
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • location Amazonas state, Solimões River
 • coordinates 2°32′31″S67°22′32″W / 2.542059°S 67.375437°W / -2.542059; -67.375437
Mouth  
 • location
 Japurá River
 • coordinates
 1°50′08″S65°42′30″W / 1.835417°S 65.708443°W / -1.835417; -65.708443

The Auati-Paraná Canal (Portuguese : Canal Auati-Paraná) is a natural canal of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a distributary that leaves the Solimões River and joins the Japurá River.

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The Auati-Paraná, also called the Ati-Paraná or Ati-Paranã, is sometimes called a river, sometimes a paraná (channel) and sometimes a canal. The last term seems most appropriate, since the natural canal leaves one river and joins another. [1] The canal divides the lower western Amazon plateau to the north from the Amazon plain. [2] The canal forms the boundary between the 146,950 hectares (363,100 acres) Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve, created in 2001, on the north bank, and the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve on the south bank. [3] The canal is a body of white water, but almost all the streams that flow into it from the extractive reserve are black water. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Velasquez Fernandes 2011, p. 69.
  2. ↑ Velasquez Fernandes 2011, p. 57.
  3. ↑ RESEX Auatí-Paraná – ISA, Informações gerais (mapa).
  4. ↑ Velasquez Fernandes 2011, p. 67.

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