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    of Peru. The Solimões flows for about 1,600 km (1,000 miles) through a floodplain about 80 km (50 miles) wide. The Amazon / Solimões river just above the...
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    to be the main stem of the Amazon. Brazilians call this section the Solimões River above its confluence with the Rio Negro forming what Brazilians call...
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    enters the Amazon River through a network of channels. It is navigable by small boats in Brazil. West of the Rio Negro, the Solimões River (as the Amazon's...
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    Meeting of Waters (category Amazonas (Brazilian state) river stubs)
    (whitewater) Amazon River, referred to as the Solimões River in Brazil upriver of this confluence. For 6 km (3.7 mi) the waters of the two rivers run side by...
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    The Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests (NT0132) is an ecoregion of tropical moist broad leaf forest in the Amazon biome. The Japurá–Solimoes–Negro moist...
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    methodology used. In a study conducted in the stretch of the Amazon called Solimões River, with a length of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) between the cities of Manaus...
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    dates to 1.7 million years ago, in the Solimões River, whence they spread and diversified following intermittent river rearrangements. There are four species...
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    exuding dissolved substances from their cells. In coastal areas, runoff from rivers and resuspension of sand and silt from the bottom add sediments to surface...
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    the Anavilhanas river archipelago in this part of the river. Below the archipelago, it meets the Solimões River to form the Amazon River, creating a phenomenon...
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    museums. The Solimões and Negro rivers meet just east of Manaus and join to form the Amazon River (using the Brazilian definition of the river; elsewhere...
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    New Species of Arapaima (Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae) from the Solimões River, Amazonas State, Brazil. Copeia, 2013 (3): 470-476. Stewart, D. J. (2013)...
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    Amazon Rainforest. Amazon River Meeting of the Waters (Rio Negro river and Solimões river, in Brazilian Portuguese the river Solimões is the local name of...
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    the primary separators of their ranges are the Amazon River (Solimões River) and Marañón River, with the western occurring to the north of them and the...
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    for Strategic International Studies reported on the importance of the Solimões River drug trade route, calling it a "Latin American Silk Road for drug trafficking"...
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  • Uarini River (Portuguese: Rio Uarini) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Solimões River. The Uarini River flows...
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    The San Miguel River (Spanish: Río San Miguel) is a river in Colombia and Ecuador. It is a sub-tributary of the Solimões River (middle course of the Amazon)...
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  • to the Essequibo River basin in Guyana; however, two more species were described in 2017: Aphyodite apiaka from the Solimões river basin and Aphyodite...
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    the primary separators of their ranges are the Amazon River (Solimões River) and Maranon River, with the western occurring to the north of them and the...
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    prefers to reside in seasonally flooded forests in the area of the Amazon River Basin, in the countries of Peru and Brazil. It is important that the uakari...
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    can breathe air. It is known only from the confluence of the Solimões and Purus Rivers in Amazonas, Brazil, although due to the lack of obvious geographic...
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  • leaves the Solimões River and joins the Japurá River. The Auati-Paraná, also called the Ati-Paraná or Ati-Paranã, is sometimes called a river, sometimes...
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    are found along rivers throughout the Solimões-Japurá ecoregion. The Iquitos várzea forms the southwest border, separating the Solimões-Japurá ecoregion...
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    upstream (west) from Manaus, at the point where the Manacapuru River flows into the Solimões River. The municipality contains about 19% of the Rio Negro Right...
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  • Miuroglanis. This species is endemic to Brazil where it occurs in the Solimões River basin. This species grows to a length of 1.2 centimetres (0.47 in) NG...
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    Negro River basins in South America. Paracheirodon innesi (G. S. Myers, 1936) (Neon tetra) Blackwater and clearwater stream tributaries of the Solimões River...
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    loggers, fishermen, and rubber-tappers entering their lands around the Solimões River. Brazil and Paraguay were in a war between 1864–1870, and the Ticuna...
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    relatively infertile land between the Purus and Madeira rivers, extending to the Solimões River (upper Amazon) in the north. It is isolated from other...
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    rivers. Tefé, also called Ega at one time, was the fourth of eight aldeias founded by Carmelite missionaries between 1697 and 1751 along the Solimões...
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    The Amazon rainforest alongside the Solimões River, a tropical rainforest. These forests are the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems in the world...
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    Igara-Paraná, Yaguas, Cotuhé, and Paraná de Jacurapá rivers. The river flows through the Solimões-Japurá moist forests ecoregion. List of the major tributaries...
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