Dos Marmelos River
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Dos Marmelos River (Portuguese: Rio dos Marmelos) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River, and merges into this river about 80 km (50 mi) upstream from the town of Manicoré.
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Dos Marmelos River | |
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Native name | Rio dos Marmelos (Portuguese) |
Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Campos Amazônicos National Park, Amazonas |
• coordinates | 8°39′4.806″S 61°58′22.0944″W |
• elevation | 120 m (390 ft) |
Mouth | |
• location | Madeira |
• coordinates | 6.147621°S 61.786841°W / -6.147621; -61.786841 |
• elevation | 30 m (98 ft) |
Length | 510 km (320 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 27,572.2 km2 (10,645.7 sq mi)[2] |
Discharge | |
• location | Confluence of Madeira, Amazonas |
• average | (Period: 1971–2000)1,556.5 m3/s (54,970 cu ft/s)[2] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Madeira → Amazon → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Amazon |
Tributaries | |
• left | Preto, Maici |
• right | Branco, Sepoti |
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The headwaters of the river are in the Campos Amazônicos National Park, a 961,318 hectares (2,375,470 acres) protected area created in 2006 that holds an unusual enclave of cerrado vegetation in the Amazon rainforest.[3]