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Copacá River

Coordinates: 3°21′03″S 65°45′53″W / 3.350892°S 65.764815°W / -3.350892; -65.764815
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Copacá River
Copacá River is located in Brazil
Copacá River
Native nameRio Copacá (Portuguese)
Location
CountryBrazil
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • coordinates
3°21′03″S 65°45′53″W / 3.350892°S 65.764815°W / -3.350892; -65.764815
Basin features
River systemUarini River

The Copacá River (Portuguese: Rio Copacá) is a river of Amazonas, Brazil. It is a right tributary of the Uarini River.

The Copacá River defines the eastern boundary of the 187,982 hectares (464,510 acres) Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve, created in 2001.[1] The Copacá is a 25 metres (82 ft) wide river that lies within the eastern limit of the reserve.[2] The floating litter banks of the river are home to a variety of allochthonous insectivore species of fish, particularly of the genera Microglanis and Phenacorhamdia.[3]

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  • Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre; Fidelis, Luana; Arruda, Rafael; Galuch, André; Zuanon, Jansen (January–March 2013), "Second floor, please: the fish fauna of floating litter banks in Amazonian streams and rivers" (PDF), Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (1), Porto Alegre, doi:10.1590/s1679-62252013000100010, ISSN 1679-6225, retrieved 2016-10-22
  • Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Extrativista Baixo Juruá (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-10-22