Maicuru River

The Maicuru River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon that discharges into that river via the Lago Grande de Monte Alegre.

Maicuru River
Native name	Rio Maicuru (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, Guyana Shield
• coordinates	0°2′23.2728″S 54°36′9.486″W
• elevation	331 m (1,086 ft)
Mouth
• location	Monte Alegre, Pará
• coordinates	2°0′16.6536″S 54°2′9.4344″W
• elevation	3 m (9.8 ft)
Length	547 km (340 mi)[1] to 610 km (380 mi)[2]
Basin size	21,917 km2 (8,462 sq mi)[1]
Discharge
• location	Monte Alegre (near mouth)
• average	240 m3/s (8,500 cu ft/s)[3]
Discharge
• location	Arapari, Pará (basin size: 17,072 km2 (6,592 sq mi)
• average	(Period: 01/01/1997-27/02/2014) 127.2518 m3/s (4,493.85 cu ft/s)[4]
Basin features
River system	Amazon River
Tributaries
• left	Igarapé do Barreirinha, Igarapé Jangada, Igarapé Ipixuna, Igarapé 23, Igarapé Fartura, Igarapé Açu
• right	Igarapé Santa Maria

The river basin lies partly within the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.^[5] Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve.^[6] The river is also fed by streams in the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.^[7]

See also

• List of rivers of Pará

References

1. Emilio, Mayorga; Miles G., Longsdon; Maria Victoria, R. Ballester; Jeffrey E., Richey (2005). "Estimating cell-to-cell land surface drainage paths from digital channel networks, with an application to the Amazon basin". Journal of Hydrology. 315 (1–4): 167–182. doi:10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2005.03.023. S2CID 8107631.
2. 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.
3. HYDROLOGIE DU BASSIN AMAZONIEN (PDF). 1997. ISBN 2-7011-1532-9.
4. Jamie, Towner (2019). "Assessing the performance of global hydrological models for capturing peak river flows in the Amazon basin" (PDF).
5. Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), archived from the original on 2020-09-26, retrieved 2016-05-12
6. Plano de Manejo da Reserva Biológica Maicuru Resumo Executivo (PDF), Belém: SEMA: Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente, May 2011, p. 8, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-20, retrieved 2016-05-14
7. Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Mulata (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-01

• Brazilian Ministry of Transport