Rio Juruá
| Rio Juruá - Río Yurúa | ||
 The Rio Juruá near Cruzeiro do Sul in the state of Acre at low tide. |
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| Data | ||
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 Peru , Brazil
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| River system | Amazon | |
| Drain over | Amazon → Atlantic Ocean | |
| Headwaters | in the Ucayali region of Peru, 9 ° 46 ′ 2 ″ S , 72 ° 4 ′ 46 ″ W |
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| Source height | 260 m | |
| muzzle |
Rio Solimões (upper reaches of the Amazon) Coordinates: 2 ° 37 ′ 55 ″ S , 65 ° 45 ′ 17 ″ W 2 ° 37 ′ 55 ″ S , 65 ° 45 ′ 17 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | 36 m | |
| Height difference | 224 m | |
| Bottom slope | 0.07 ‰ | |
| length | 3283 km | |
| Catchment area | 225,828 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
8440 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries | Río Tarauacá | |
| Medium-sized cities | Cruzeiro do Sul | |
| Navigable | 1823 km | |
 Loop of the Juruá river |
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The Rio Juruá , in the Peruvian upper reaches Río Yurúa , is a 3283 km long right tributary of the Amazon in Peru and Brazil .
River course
The river has its source in the mountains of the Peruvian region of Ucayali, southeast of Puerto Portillo, and flows from there in a northwest direction. At Foz do Breu, the extremely winding river crosses the border to Brazil and flows initially in a northerly and then - parallel to the Purus - in a northeastern direction through the federal state of Amazonas . The municipality of the same name Juruá is located there on the river.
The Rio Juruá is navigable for a total of 1823 kilometers.
The largest tributaries
The largest tributaries include (downstream):
- Río Humaitó (right)
- Juruá Mirim (left)
- Rio Moa (left)
- Río Ipixuma (left)
- Riozinho da Liberdade (right)
- Rio Gregório (right)
- Rio Eiru (right)
- Río Tarauacá (right)
- Río Xiruá (right)
- Rio do Breu (right)
See also
literature
- Colbert E. Cushing, Kenneth W. Cummins, G. Wayne Minshall: River and Stream Ecosystems of the World: With a New Introduction . University of California Press 2006, ISBN 0-520-24567-9 , p. 280ff ( restricted online version (Google Books) )
- Juruá in Meyer's encyclopedia from 1907 on zeno.org
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA) e Secretaria Nacional de Recursos Hídricos ( data overview )
- ^ Kümmerly + Frey Rand McNally : International Atlas . Published by Georg Westermann Verlag ISBN 3-07-508962-1