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Juruena, Arapiuns. • right. Teles Pires, Cururu, Das Tropas, Crepori, Jamanxim. The Tapajós ( Portuguese: Rio Tapajós [ˈʁi.u tɐpɐˈʒɔs]) is a river in Brazil. It runs through the Amazon Rainforest and is a major tributary of the Amazon River. When combined with the Juruena River, the Tapajós is approximately 2,080 km (1,290 mi) long. [2]
The Tapajós, also called the Santarém culture, were Indigenous Brazilian people, now extinct, who in the 17th century lived in the area around where the Tapajós flowed into the Amazon River, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. [ 1] Tapajó. Tapajocos. Region. Tapajós and Amazon Rivers. Era. attested 17th century.
White-faced saki. The white-faced saki ( Pithecia pithecia ), called the Guianan saki and the golden-faced saki, is a species of the New World saki monkey. They can be found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. This species lives in the understory and lower canopy of the forest, feeding mostly on fruits, nuts, seeds, and ...
The genus Crenicichla is native to freshwater in tropical and subtropical South America east of the Andes, ranging from Trinidad and the Guiana Shield (including Orinoco ), through the Amazon and Río de la Plata Basins, south as far as Río Negro in Argentina. [ 4] Although widespread as a group, the individual species are often restricted to ...
The Tapajós National Forest has an area of 549,066.87 hectares (1,356,773.8 acres). [1] It is in the municipalities of Belterra, Aveiro, Rurópolis and Placas in the state of Pará. [2] The unit is bounded by the Tapajós, the Cupari River, a tributary of the Tapajós, and the BR-163 Santarém–Cuiabá road. Part of the forest drains into the ...
Binomial name. Pithecia irrorata. J. E. Gray, 1842. Rio Tapajós saki range. The Rio Tapajós saki or Gray's bald-faced saki [3] ( Pithecia irrorata) is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey, from South America. It is found in parts of western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, southeastern Peru and possibly northern Bolivia.
The Amazon River (UK: / ˈ æ m ə z ən /, US: / ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n /; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. [3] [19] [n 2]
The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain to oceans, mediterranean seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies. All basins larger than 400,000 km 2 (150,000 sq mi) are included as well as selected smaller basins.