Copacá River
| Copacá River | |
|---|---|
  | |
| Native name | Rio Copacá (Portuguese) |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 3°21′03″S 65°45′53″W / 3.350892°S 65.764815°W |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Uarini River |
The Copacá River (Portuguese: Rio Copacá) is a river of Amazonas, Brazil. It is a right tributary of the Uarini River.
The Copacá River defines the eastern boundary of the 187,982 hectares (464,510 acres) Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve, created in 2001.[1] The Copacá is a 25 metres (82 ft) wide river that lies within the eastern limit of the reserve.[2] The floating litter banks of the river are home to a variety of allochthonous insectivore species of fish, particularly of the genera Microglanis and Phenacorhamdia.[3]
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References[edit]
- ^ Unidade de Conservação ... MMA.
- ^ Carvalho et al. 2013, p. 87.
- ^ Carvalho et al. 2013, p. 89.
Sources[edit]
- Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre; Fidelis, Luana; Arruda, Rafael; Galuch, André; Zuanon, Jansen (January–March 2013), "Second floor, please: the fish fauna of floating litter banks in Amazonian streams and rivers" (PDF), Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (1), Porto Alegre, doi:10.1590/s1679-62252013000100010, ISSN 1679-6225, retrieved 2016-10-22
- Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Extrativista Baixo Juruá (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-10-22