Vargem do Braço River

River in Brazil
27°42′23″S 48°42′6″W / 27.70639°S 48.70167°W / -27.70639; -48.70167Basin featuresRiver systemCubatão River

The Vargem do Braço River (Portuguese: Rio Vargem do Braço, also known as Rio Vargem do Cedro[1] and Rio Pilões[2]) is a river of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Course

The Vargem do Braço River rises in the lushly-forested Serra do Tabuleiro State Park, a 84,130 hectares (207,900 acres) protected area created in 1975.[3] The Serra do Tabuleiro, with altitudes above 1,200 metres (3,900 ft), is the largest mountain in the east-central portion of the state.[4] The river is the main source of water for the greater Florianópolis metropolitan region.[4] The river seems to have flowed north-northwest until quite recently, when a major tectonic event forced it to change its course. It now flows east-northeast to enter the Cubatão River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Rio Vargem do Braço at GeoNames
  2. ^ "Relatório anual de qualidade da água distribuída" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Companhia Catarinense de Águas e Saneamento. 20 February 2017. O Rio Vargem do Braço, conhecido como Pilões)
  3. ^ Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro – FATMA.
  4. ^ a b José Pedro de Paiva Reis & Edison Ramos Tomazzoli 2010, p. 87.
  5. ^ José Pedro de Paiva Reis & Edison Ramos Tomazzoli 2010, p. 88.

Sources

  • José Pedro de Paiva Reis; Edison Ramos Tomazzoli (September 2010), "Evidências de neotectônica na bacia do Rio Vargem do Braço, SC", Revista de Geografia (in Portuguese), VIII SINAGEO (1), Recife: UFPE – DCG/NAPA, retrieved 2016-06-11
  • Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro (in Portuguese), FATMA: Fundação do meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-11


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