Teles Pires
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Teles Pires (Template:Langx) is a Script error: No such module "convert". long river in Brazil.[1] The river flows through the state of Mato Grosso and its lower part marks the border between the states of Mato Grosso and Pará. At its mouth it joins Juruena River and together they form the Tapajós, which is one of the biggest tributaries of the Amazon River. The most importantScript error: No such module "Unsubst". settlement along the river is Alta Floresta. One writer says that it was originally called the Paranatinga, and was renamed after Captain Telles Pires who died exploring the river in 1889.[2]
Several dams are planned on the river in the "Hidrovia Tapajos/Teles Pires" project to create a navigable waterway connecting the interior of Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. The waterway will consist of five dams on the Teles Pires river (Script error: No such module "convert". Magessi Dam, Script error: No such module "convert". Sinop Dam, Script error: No such module "convert". Colíder Dam, Script error: No such module "convert". Teles Pires Dam, Script error: No such module "convert". Sao Manoel Dam) and the Script error: No such module "convert". Foz do Apiacas Dam on the Apiacas river.
The Colíder Dam and the Teles Pires Dam are currently under construction, while the smaller upstream dams are still in the planning stages.[3]
References
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- ↑ John Hemming, Amazon Frontier, 1987, p 411, but in Map IV he labels the lower part São Manuel (Teles Pires) and has Paranatinga as an upper right branch.
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