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  2. List of rivers of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Acaraú River; Acari River (Rio de Janeiro) Acari River (Roraima) Acauã River; Acre River; Açu River; Açuã River; Acurauá River; Acuriá River; Adelaide River (Brazil)

  3. Iquitos várzea - Wikipedia

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    The Iquitos várzea (NT0128) is an ecoregion of flooded forest along rivers in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia in the west of the Amazon biome. The forest is seasonally flooded up to 7 metres (23 ft) by whitewater rivers carrying nutrient-rich sediment from the Andes. The meandering rivers often shift course, creating a complex landscape of oxbow ...

  4. Alluvial river - Wikipedia

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    Alluvial river in Austria. An alluvial river is one in which the bed and banks are made up of mobile sediment and/or soil.Alluvial rivers are self-formed, meaning that their channels are shaped by the magnitude and frequency of the floods that they experience, and the ability of these floods to erode, deposit, and transport sediment.

  5. Juruá River - Wikipedia

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    The Juruá River (Portuguese: Rio Juruá; Spanish: Río Yuruá) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

  6. Category:Lists of rivers of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of rivers of Brazil" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. São Lourenço River (Mato Grosso) - Wikipedia

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    The São Lourenço River is a tributary of the Paraguay River within the Pantanal, an alluvial plain that spans portions of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. [1] The São Lourenço river basin lies in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil.

  8. Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil ...

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    MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of ...

  9. Alluvium - Wikipedia

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    Alluvium and adjacent constituents Alluvium deposits in the Gamtoos Valley in South Africa An alluvial plain in Red Rock Canyon State Park (California) Alluvial river deposits in the Amazon basin, near Autazes, AM, Brazil. The seasonal deposits are extremely fertile and crucial to subsistence farming in the Amazon Basin along the river banks.