Auati-Paraná Canal

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.

Auati-Paraná Canal
Native name	Canal Auati-Paraná (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Amazonas state, Solimões River
• coordinates	2.542059°S 67.375437°W / -2.542059; -67.375437
Mouth
• location	Japurá River
• coordinates	1.835417°S 65.708443°W / -1.835417; -65.708443

Course

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]

See also

• List of rivers of Amazonas