Araguari River (Amapá)
The Araguari River (Portuguese: Rio Araguari River) is the primary river of Amapá state in north-eastern Brazil. It became famous among surfers when some decided to ride its constant tidal bore, characterizing waves that can last for several minutes.[3]
| Araguari River | |
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 Undular bore and whelps near the mouth of Araguari River. View is oblique toward mouth from airplane at approximately 100 ft (30 m) altitude.[1] | |
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| Native name | Rio Araguari (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Amapá state |
| Mouth | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean |
• coordinates | 1.25°N 49.916667°W |
| Length | 560 kilometres (350 mi)[2] |
| Basin size | 42,712 square kilometres (16,491 sq mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Mutum River, Falsino River |
The river flows through the Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests ecoregion.[4] The river defines the western boundary of the 460,353 hectares (1,137,560 acres) Amapá National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1989.[5]
See also
References
- Figure 5 in: Susan Bartsch-Winkler; David K. Lynch (1988), Catalog of worldwide tidal bore occurrences and characteristics (Circular 1022), U. S. Geological Survey
- Ziesler, R.; Ardizzone, G.D. (1979). "Amazon River System". The Inland waters of Latin America. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014.
- Surfers Village "Big-Wave Tow-in surfers on mile-long Pororoca wave" Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Sears, Robin, Northern South America: Northeastern Brazil, into southern Guyana and Suriname (NT0173), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-31
- FLONA do Amapá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-07-06
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