River
Jari River
1,000 km from source to mouth · Brazil.
BrazilFlows into Amazon River
In numbers
Length
1,000km
Average flow
1,200m³/s
Basin
60,000km²
Drop
384m
from 384 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,000 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTumuk Humak Mountainsat 384 m
- 219 kmXimim-Ximim Rivertributary
- 260 kmCurapi Rivertributary
- 298 kmCulari Rivertributary
- 341 kmCuc Rivertributary
- 438 kmCachoeira do Desespero
- 451 kmCachoeira Macacoara
- 498 kmCachoeira Meripatari
- 501 kmCachoeira Carapatari
- 509 kmCachoeira do Rebojo
- 519 kmCachoeira Mucuru
- 597 kmCachoeira Cuiuri
- 606 kmCachoeira Ipitinga
- 667 kmNoucouru Rivertributary
- 672 kmCachoeira Aurora
- 692 kmCachoeira Inajá
- 746 kmIratapuru Rivertributary
- 760 kmCachoeira de Santo Antônio
- 786 kmLaranjal do Jari35,114 people
- 806 kmVitória do Jari11,291 people
- 1,000 kmAmazon Riverat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Pará, Brazil
At the mouth it carries 1,190 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.1 seconds. It drops from 384 m to 0 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 60,000 km², about the size of TG. 64,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: from September to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Laranjal do JariLargest city on its banks · 35,114 people
- Macapá - Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport (MCP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 187 km from the cityCar hire at MCP airport (Macapá)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From September to NovemberThe best months to visit
Jari River, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: from September to December. Best months to visit: from September to November.
From about 280 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,800 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Jari River: the basin in numbers
58,834 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 64,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 258maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,267mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.6°Caverage air temperature
- 87%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 95% Forest
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Jari River: what you find on the way
- 26WaterfallsCorredeira Molocopote, Corredeira do Desespero, Corredeira Macaquara and 23 more
- 3Ferry piersBalsa Monte Dourado - Laranjal do Jari, Vitória do Jari, Munguba Almeirim
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Jari River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
11waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (11)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cachoeira Macacoarakm 358
- Cachoeira Meripatarikm 395
- Cachoeira do Rebojokm 403
- Cachoeira Mucurukm 412
- Cachoeira Ipitingakm 480
- Cachoeira Aurorakm 533
- Cachoeira Inajákm 549
- Cachoeira de Santo Antôniokm 603
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Jari River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amazon RiverBrazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Cuc River, Culari River, Curapi River, Iratapuru River, Noucouru River, Ximim-Ximim River, Mapaoni River, Mapiri River, Igarapé Piunquara, Iratapina River
In the same basin
Brazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 m³/sMarañón River
Peru1,737 km16,700 m³/sUcayali RiverPeru1,460 km12,600 m³/sJapurá RiverBrazil2,820 km13,900 m³/sXingu RiverBrazil1,640 km9,700 m³/sMamoré RiverBrazil1,930 km11,600 m³/sJuruá RiverBrazil3,100 km4,800 m³/sTapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2670262) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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