Auati-Paraná Canal

Auati-Paraná Canal
Auati-Paraná Canal (Brazil)
Native name Canal Auati-Paraná
Country Brazil
Basin
Main source Amazonas state, Solimões River
2°32′31″S 67°22′32″W / 2.542059°S 67.375437°W / -2.542059; -67.375437
River mouth Japurá River
1°50′08″S 65°42′30″W / 1.835417°S 65.708443°W / -1.835417; -65.708443Coordinates: 1°50′08″S 65°42′30″W / 1.835417°S 65.708443°W / -1.835417; -65.708443

The Auati-Paraná Canal (Portuguese: Canal Auati-Paraná) is a natural canal of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a distributary that leaves the Solimões River and joins the Japurá River.

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The Auati-Paraná, also called the Ati-Paraná or Ati-Paranã, is sometimes called a river, sometimes a paraná (channel) and sometimes a canal. The last term seems most appropriate, since the natural canal leaves one river and joins another.[1] The canal divides the lower western Amazon plateau to the north from the Amazon plain.[2] The canal forms the boundary between the 146,950 hectares (363,100 acres) Auatí-Paraná Extractive Reserve, created in 2001, on the north bank, and the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve on the south bank.[3] The canal is a body of white water, but almost all the streams that flow into it from the extractive reserve are black water.[4]

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