Aripuanã River
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The Aripuanã is a clearwater river.[1][2]
Course
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Further north in Amazonas the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) crosses the Aripuanã. North of the highway the river flows through the Script error: No such module "convert". Aripuanã National Forest, a sustainable development unit created in 2016 in the last week before the provisional removal of president Dilma Rousseff. It then flows through the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve before meeting the Madeira.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
There are four dams on the river (Dardanelos Dam, Faxinal I and Faxinal II at Aripuanã town, and Juína Dam west of Juína) and a fifth is planned (Prainha Dam on the middle Aripuanã River). These have impacted the environment and caused conflicts with indigenous people.[3][4]
See also
References
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- ↑ Hurwitz, Z. (29 July 2010). Another Indigenous Tragedy Highlights the Inviability of Amazonian Dams. International Rivers. Retrieved 27 May 2014
- ↑ Ecolnews:Usina de Dardanelos, crime ambiental premeditado e consolidado. Script error: No such module "webarchive". Retrieved 27 May 2014
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