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The Purus River is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is 371,042 km2 (143,260 sq mi), and the mean annual discharge is 11,207 m3/s (395,800 cu ft/s). The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and the Purús Province, one of the four provinces of Peru in the Ucayali Region.
Acre is a state located in the west of the North Region of Brazil and the Amazonia Legal. Located in the westernmost part of the country, at a two-hour time difference from Brasília, Acre is bordered clockwise by the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Rondônia to the north and east, the Bolivian department of Pando to the southeast, and the Peruvian regions of Madre de Dios, Ucayali and Loreto to the south and west. The state, which has 0.42% of the Brazilian population, generates 0.2% of the Brazilian GDP.
Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country is divided into four standard time zones: UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00 and UTC−05:00.
The cobalt-winged parakeet is a species of bird in the family Psittacidae, the true parrots. It is found in the eastern Andean foothills, the far western Amazonian regions in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; and Brazil, in the Amazon Basin states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondonia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical, moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
The Acurauá River (Portuguese: Rio Acurauá is a river of Acre and Amazonas states in western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Tarauacá River.
Andirá River is a river of Acre and Amazonas states in western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Acre River.
The Gregório River (Portuguese: Rio Gregório is a river of Amazonas and Acre states in western Brazil. It is a tributary of Juruá River.
Iaco River is a river of Acre and Amazonas states in western Brazil.
Ituxi River is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Purus River.
Liberdade River is a river of Acre and Amazonas states in western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Juruá River.
Tarauacá River (Portuguese: Rio Tarauacá is a river of Amazonas and Acre states in western Brazil. The Rio Tarauacá is a tributary of the Juruá River, which itself flows into the Amazon.
The Paraná do Urariá is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a side channel that connects the Madeira River and Amazonas River. The Maués Açu, Apoquitaua, Paraconi, Abacaxis and Canumã Rivers all flow into the Paraná do Urariá.
Aripuanã River is a river in the Mato Grosso and Amazonas states in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River in the Amazon Basin. The town of Novo Aripuanã is located on its banks where it merges into the Madeira River. The town of Aripuanã is also on its banks, but on the upper (southern) section of the river.
Madeirinha River is a river of Mato Grosso and Amazonas states in north-western Brazil, a left tributary of the Roosevelt River.
Guariba River is a river of the Mato Grosso and Amazonas states in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Aripuanã River.
The Jutaí River is a river in Amazonas state in north-western Brazil.
The Tucuruí transmission line is a hydroelectric power line that leads north from the Tucuruí Dam in Pará, Brazil and crosses the Amazon River. From there the eastern branch leads to Macapá in Amapá and the western branch leads to Manaus in Amazonas. The towers supporting the span across the Amazon River are nearly as high as the Eiffel Tower. Work to extend the line from Manaus north to Boa Vista, Roraima, is due to complete in 2018. There were delays in issuing the environmental permits and then legal challenges since the line crosses the territory of indigenous people who had not been consulted. Although efforts have been made to avoid environmental damage, there has been controversy about the impact of construction and of the tower maintenance corridor.
The Tariana or Taliaseri are an indigenous people of the Vaupés or Uaupés River in the Amazon region of Brazil and Colombia. Starting in the 19th century missionaries tried to persuade them to abandon their traditional beliefs and practices, with some level of success. The government made efforts to convert them to a "colony" system in exchange for health, education and economic benefits starting in the 1980s. They are now relatively autonomous within several indigenous territories.