Cururu River (Tapajós River)
The Cururu River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. It is a right tributary of the Tapajós; the mouth is located on the eastern side of the Tapajós about 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Juruena–Teles Pires junction.
The river flows through the Itaituba I National Forest, a 220,639 hectares (545,210 acres) sustainable use conservation area established in 1998. The lower part of the river flows through the Mundurucu Indigenous Territory.
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References
- ^ Unidade de Conservação: Floresta Nacional de Itaituba I (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-29
- ^ Melo, Juliana; Villanueva, Rosa Elisa (2008), Levantamento Etnoecológico MUNDURUKU Terra Indígena Munduruku (PDF), Brasília: FUNAI – Fundação Nacional do Índio / PPTAL – Projeto Integrado de Proteção às Populações e Terras Indígenas da Amazônia Legal / GTZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zussamenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, p. 21ff, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-15, retrieved 2017-02-14