River
Juruena River
960 km from source to mouth · Brazil.
BrazilFlows into Tapajós River
In numbers
Length
960km
Average flow
4,500m³/s
Basin
190,940km²
Drop
529m
from 629 m to 100 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
960 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 629 m
- 347 kmPapagaio Rivertributary
- 519 kmArinos Rivertributary
- 529 kmJuruena10,149 people
- 580 kmCachoeira Meia Carga
- 586 kmCachoeira Dois Irmãos
- 653 kmCachoeira São Luís
- 668 kmCachoeira do Rebojo
- 700 kmCachoeira São João da Barra
- 702 kmCachoeira São Carlos
- 707 kmSalto Augusto
- 728 kmCachoeira Tocarizal
- 742 kmCachoeira das Furnas
- 744 kmCachoeira das Onças
- 898 kmBararati Rivertributary
- 960 kmTapajós Riverat 100 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Mato Grosso & Amazonas, Brazil
At the mouth it carries 4,458 m³/s on average: 1.8 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 629 m to 100 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 190,940 km², about the size of SN. 283,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to April; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- JuruenaLargest city on its banks · 10,149 people
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to AugustThe best months to visit
Juruena River, month by month
Highest water: from February to April
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 990 m³/s in the lowest month to 9,400 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
Juruena River: the basin in numbers
191,781 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 283,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 369maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,988mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.5°Caverage air temperature
- 30%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 74% Forest
- 5% Cropland
- 9% 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
Juruena River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 5WaterfallsCachoeirão, Cachoeira do Desastre, Salto Augusto and 2 more
- 4Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Juruena 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.
10waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (10)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cachoeira Meia Cargakm 647
- Cachoeira Dois Irmãoskm 654
- Cachoeira São Luískm 729
- Cachoeira do Rebojokm 745
- Cachoeira São João da Barrakm 780
- Cachoeira São Carloskm 783
- Cachoeira Tocarizalkm 812
- Cachoeira das Onçaskm 830
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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
Juruena River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Tapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Arinos River, Bararati River, Papagaio River, Camararé River, Do Sangue River, Iquê River, Sangue River, Juína-Miriam River, São João da Barra River, São Tomé River, Juína River
In the same basin
Brazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sRio NegroBrazil2,250 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/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q472816) · 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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