Auati-Paraná Canal

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.

Auati-Paraná Canal
Native nameCanal Auati-Paraná  (Portuguese)
Location
CountryBrazil
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationAmazonas state, Solimões River
 • coordinates2.542059°S 67.375437°W / -2.542059; -67.375437
Mouth 
 • location
Japurá River
 • coordinates
1.835417°S 65.708443°W / -1.835417; -65.708443

Course

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]

See also

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.

Sources
  • RESEX Auatí-Paraná (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-21
  • Velasquez Fernandes, Carlos Henrique (October 2011), Plano de Manejo Participativo da Reserva Extrativista Auati-Paraná (PDF) (in Portuguese), Tefé / AM: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, retrieved 2016-10-21


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