Teles Pires
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Rio Teles Pires Rio Sao Manoel |
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 Teles Pires |
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| location | Mato Grosso , Brazil | |
| River system | Amazon | |
| Drain over | Rio Tapajós → Amazon → Atlantic | |
| source | in the Serra Azul | |
| Source height | around 800 m | |
| confluence | with the Rio Juruena to the Rio Tapajós Coordinates: 7 ° 21 ′ 1 ″ S , 58 ° 8 ′ 18 ″ W 7 ° 21 ′ 1 ″ S , 58 ° 8 ′ 18 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | 95 m | |
| Height difference | around 705 m | |
| Bottom slope | around 0.49 ‰ | |
| length | 1431 km | |
| Catchment area | 141,472 km² | |
| Outflow at the Três Marias gauge |
NNQ MQ MHQ |
715 m³ / s 3980 m³ / s 13,877 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries | Peixoto de Azevedo | |
| Medium-sized cities | Alta Floresta | |
The Teles Pires , also called Rio São Manoel or Rio São Manuel , is a 1430 km long river in Brazil . The Teles Pires, together with the left, only slightly larger source river, the Rio Juruena, forms the Rio Tapajós and thus belongs to the catchment area of the Amazon .
It flows through the state of Mato Grosso , with its lower course up to the confluence with the Rio Juruena forming the border between the states of Mato Grosso and Pará .
The Teles Pires forms many rapids and waterfalls (Cachoeira Villeroy, 40 m), which made the river area difficult to access in the past. Several hydroelectric power plants with reservoirs have now been built, including the Teles Pires power plant .
The largest tributaries
The largest tributaries include (downstream):
- Río Verde (left)
- Río Parado (right)
- Peixoto de Azevedo (right)
- Río Paranaíta (left)
- Río Apiacá (left)
- Sâo Benedito (right)
- Cururu Açu (right)
Web links
- Comprehensive hydrological and ecological description (Portuguese, PDF file, 42.4 MB)
- Teles Pires in the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English (bartleby.com)
- Hidrovia Tapajos - Teles Pires - Government Document (Portuguese) (PDF file; 3.18 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Empresa de Pesquisa Energética - EPE (Olivia Cardoso): Avaliação Ambiental Integrada da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Teles Pires ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2008
- ↑ Marcos Heil Costa et al .: A macroscale hydrological data set of river flow routing parameters for the Amazon Basin ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 548 kB) , Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 107, 2002
- ↑ Michael T. Coe et al .: Long-term simulations of discharge and floods in the Amazon Basin ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 683 kB) , Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 107, 2002
- ^ R. Ziesler, GD Ardizzone: Las aguas continentales de America Latina . FAO publication from 1979.
- ^ Kümmerly + Frey Rand McNally : International Atlas . Published by Georg Westermann Verlag ISBN 3-07-508962-1
