Aramá River
| Aramá River | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| State | Pará |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Anajás River |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 1°05′06″S 50°41′02″W / 1.084906°S 50.683972°W |
| Length | 75[1] km (47 mi) |
| Width | |
| • maximum | 300 metres (980 ft)[2] |
| Depth | |
| • maximum | 30 metres (98 ft)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Mapuá River |
| • right | Furo Japicháua |
The Aramá River (Portuguese: Rio Aramá, also spelled Aramã[3]) is a river of Marajó, which itself is an island in the Amazon Delta. It is a right tributary of the Jacaré Grande River. The name Aramá stems from the Tupi–Guarani languages and means "Mother of Honey", referring to bees.[1]
Course
The main source of the Aramá's waters is in the swamp areas called mondongos that are normally flooded during the wet season.[4] The river branches off the Anajás River at its right, running along the border of São Sebastião da Boa Vista and Curralinho municipalities. Its main tributaries are the Mapuá River, the Furo Japicháua, the Braço do Soco and Braço do Jacaré. Braço do Soco is fed by a lake called Lago dos Leões on the boundary of Anajás municipality. The Mapuá enters the Aramá opposite a river island called Basílio Island.[1][5]
Water levels in the Aramá depend on the variation between rainy and dry seasons, and on the tides in the Amazon. Levels are high in the months January–June, and low from July to November.[3]
In the past, important economic activities along the river were the extraction of rubber and logging. In the present day, the main activities are the extraction of açaí, fishery (using traditional fish traps called matapi and cacuri) and small-scale agriculture (especially cassava for the production of farinha flour).[1]
The river forms the northern boundary in the western part of the Mapuá Extractive Reserve. The Mapuá River, a left tributary of the Aramá, runs along the southern boundary of the reserve. The reserve contains sheets of tidal water and mangroves.[6] The reserve is mostly lowland floodplain, with some terra firma in the centre of the territory.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Vasconcelos, S. "Economia e Cultura do Rio Aramã". Scribd.
- ^ a b Zoological Yearbooks. Department of Systematics, Ecology and Geography of Animals. Vol. 20. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. 1904.
- ^ a b Silva, A.G. (2020). Manejo florestal não madeireiro das famílias extrativistas da reserva extrativista Mapuá, comunidade Santíssima Trindade, Rio Aramã, Breves (PA) (Thesis). Belém: Federal University of Pará.
- ^ Globus. Vol. 85. Bibliographisches Institut. 1904.
- ^ Lisboa, P.L.B. (2012). A Terra dos Aruã: Uma história ecológica do arquipelágo do Marajó. Belém: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
- ^ "RESEX Mapuá". ISA: Instituto Socioambiental. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.
- ^ "Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Extrativista Mapuá". MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente.