The Taquari River (Portuguese: Rio Taquari) is a river in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil. It is a left tributary of the Paraguay River. The town of Coxim is situated on the Taquari.
| Taquari River | |
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| Native name | Rio Taquari (Portuguese) |
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| Country | Brazil |
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• coordinates | 19°14′32″S 57°13′29″W / 19.242095°S 57.224655°W |
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| River system | Paraguay River |
The Taquari River is considered the most degraded river in the pantanal basin of Mato Grosso do Sul. The headwaters of the river are protected by the 30,619 hectares (75,660 acres) Nascentes do Rio Taquari State Park, created in 1999.[1]
The Taquari river complex has over recent decades been subject to various course changes and avulsions, partly through faults and crevasses in natural levees.[2] Extensive and complex changes in water pathways have caused large scale redistribution of sediment and flooding of previously cultivated land. These processes, which are ongoing, have forced many farmers to abandon the region and hampered planning of future development over a very large area. In fact, the whole of the Pantanal wetland undergoes large changes in water flow characteristics on a range of timescales and the changes in the Taquari are part of a larger pattern of instability,[3] which may be subject to effects of climate change.
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editReferences
edit- ^ PES das Nascentes do Rio Taquari (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-12-13
- ^ Assine, Mario Luis (2005). "River avulsions on the Taquari megafan, Pantanal wetland, Brazil". Geomorphology. 70 (3–4): 357–371. Bibcode:2005Geomo..70..357A. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.02.013.
- ^ Bergier, Ivan (2022). "Functional fluvial landforms of the Pantanal: Hydrologic trends and responses to climate changes". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 119: 103977. Bibcode:2022JSAES.11903977B. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103977. S2CID 251729565.