River
Juruá River
3,100 km from source to mouth · Brazil and Peru.
Brazil and PeruFlows into Amazon River2nd longest in Brazil
In numbers
Length
3,100km
Average flow
4,800m³/s
Basin
224,000km²
Drop
293m
from 330 m to 37 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
3,100 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 330 m
- 520 kmFeijó35,426 people
- 706 kmEnvira9,956 people
- 904 kmTarauacá Rivertributary
- 1,053 kmLago Uirá-Açu2.8 km²
- 2,115 kmLago Pauapixuna1.9 km²
- 2,145 kmLago Curimatá2.0 km²
- 2,153 kmLago Cerrado1.9 km²
- 2,194 kmLago Pungá4.1 km²
- 2,307 kmLago da Onça0.7 km²
- 2,598 kmJuruá15,106 people
- 2,783 kmLago Uala2.7 km²
- 3,100 kmAmazon Riverat 37 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Brazil & Peru
At the mouth it carries 4,765 m³/s on average: 1.9 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 330 m to 37 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 224,000 km², about the size of GY. 350,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to April; lowest: from August to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- FeijóLargest city on its banks · 35,426 people
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Juruá River, month by month
Highest water: from February to April
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 3,500 m³/s in the lowest month to 10,700 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
Juruá River: the basin in numbers
189,713 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 350,000people live in the basin
- 2/km²people per km²
- 205maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,258mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.7°Caverage air temperature
- 39%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 96% Forest
- 1% Pasture
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
Juruá River: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piersItamarati
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Juruá 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.
7lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (7)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lago Uirá-Açukm 7602.8km²
- Lago Pauapixunakm 1,5261.9km²
- Lago Curimatákm 1,5482.0km²
- Lago Cerradokm 1,5541.9km²
- Lago Pungákm 1,5844.1km²
- Lago da Onçakm 1,6650.7km²
- Lago Ualakm 2,0082.7km²
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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
Juruá River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amazon RiverBrazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sTributaries (21)
Also: Tarauacá River, Moa River, Gregório River, Juruá-Mirim River, Amônia River, Grajaú River, Das Minas River, Igarapé Caipora, Igarapé Natal, Do Moura River, Paratari River, Tejo River, Valparaiso River, Breu River, Ouro Preto River, Arara River, Eiru River, Igarapé Humaitá, Liberdade River, Mineruázinho River, Xeruã River
In the same basin
Brazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 m³/sMarañón RiverPeru1,737 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/sTapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sPurus RiverBrazil2,960 km8.4 m³/sNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q117526) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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