Brazil, Rondônia, Conceição - Príncipe da Beira, Costa Marques
This 720L biotope model consists of emerse and submerse portion. The volume of aquatic portion varies from 493L in wintertime to 370L in summertime.
It represents a meander in Rio Cautário in dry season, tributary of Guapore river in Western Brazil. The Cautário River rises in the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Territory. It is fed by streams from the 650m (2.130 ft) Serra Uopianes and the 750m (2.460 ft) Serra Pacaas Novos.
The Rio Cautário has clear waters fed by a region without major deforestation and silting of the river’s margins. It has rapids, but always with a drop of less than 2m (6.7ft). The simplicity of Gymnocorymbus ternetzi and Prionobrama filigera and a less known river inspired me to create a simple yet astonishing natural habitat to bring in light the Cautário River.
- GPS
- -12.2068195, -64.5939102
- Geographical region
- South America
- Drainage Basin
- Rio Amazonas
- River catchment
- Rio Madeira
- Water body type
- River
- Water body name
- Cautario
- Water body part
- Meander
- Water body course
- Lower course
- Water body: tributary of
- Rio
- Tributary name
- Guaporé
Videos above and below water
