Vargem Do Braço River
The Vargem do Braço River (Portuguese: Rio Vargem do Braço, also known as Rio Vargem do Cedro and Rio Pilões) is a river of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Course
The Vargem do Braço River rises in the lushly-forested Serra do Tabuleiro State Park, a 84,130 hectares (207,900 acres) protected area created in 1975. The Serra do Tabuleiro, with altitudes above 1,200 metres (3,900 ft), is the largest mountain in the east-central portion of the state. The river is the main source of water for the greater Florianópolis metropolitan region. The river seems to have flowed north-northwest until quite recently, when a major tectonic event forced it to change its course. It now flows east-northeast to enter the Cubatão River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean.
See also
References
- ^ Rio Vargem do Braço at GeoNames
- ^ "Relatório anual de qualidade da água distribuída" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Companhia Catarinense de Águas e Saneamento. 20 February 2017.
O Rio Vargem do Braço, conhecido como Pilões)
- ^ Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro – FATMA.
- ^ José Pedro de Paiva Reis & Edison Ramos Tomazzoli 2010, p. 87.
- ^ José Pedro de Paiva Reis & Edison Ramos Tomazzoli 2010, p. 88.
Sources
- José Pedro de Paiva Reis; Edison Ramos Tomazzoli (September 2010), "Evidências de neotectônica na bacia do Rio Vargem do Braço, SC", Revista de Geografia (in Portuguese), VIII SINAGEO (1), Recife: UFPE – DCG/NAPA, retrieved 2016-06-11
- Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro (in Portuguese), FATMA: Fundação do meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-11