The Igarapé do Aturiá is one of the many forest streams that feeds into the Rio Negro. As the rainy season advances and the Rio Negro level rises, this clear igarapé wides as it starts to get invaded by the incredibly dark and tannin rich water.
What used to be the forest floor gets covered by leaf litter and a myriad of botanicals, fallen trees and branches create slower current areas and where the fine white sand of the bottom of the igarapé is exposed to the sunlight lush carpets of Eleocharis sp. grow.
- GPS
- -2.5730000, -60.3724670
- Geographical region
- South America
- Drainage Basin
- Amazon
- River catchment
- Rio Negro
- Water body type
- Igarapè
- Water body name
- do Aturiá
- Water body part
- River mouth
- Water body course
- Lower course
- Water body: tributary of
- Rio
- Tributary name
- Rio Negro
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