Paracauari River

Paracauari River
Native name	Rio Paracauari (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Marajó island
Mouth
• coordinates	0.747660°S 48.510357°W / -0.747660; -48.510357
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Saco River

The Paracauari River (Portuguese: Rio Paracauari) is a river on the island of Marajó in the state of Pará, Brazil. It discharges into the Marajó Bay at the mouth of the Tocantins River

Course

The Paracauari rises in the northeast part of the island of Marajó. The north arm of the river is protected by the 27,464 hectares (67,870 acres) Soure Marine Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use conservation area created in 2001 that protects the coastal mangroves to the north of the Soure municipal seat and the mangroves along the north bank of the Paracauari River and its left (north) tributary the Saco River. The Paracauari flows into Marajó Bay, the mouth of the Tocantins River, at Soure, Pará.

See also

• List of rivers of Pará