Curuçá River

Curuçá River
Country Brazil
Source Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, Atalaia do Norte, State of Amazonas
Mouth Javary River
 - coordinates 4°26′47″S 71°24′16″W / 4.44639°S 71.40444°W / -4.44639; -71.40444Coordinates: 4°26′47″S 71°24′16″W / 4.44639°S 71.40444°W / -4.44639; -71.40444
Length 530 km (329 mi) [1]

Curuçá River is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil.[2] It is entirely located within the municipality of Atalaia do Norte.

1930 Curuçá River event

On August 13, 1930 the area near latitude 5° S and longitude 71.5° W experienced a meteoric air burst, also known as the Brazilian Tunguska event.[3][4] The mass of the meteorite was estimated at between 1,000 and 25,000 tons, with an energy release estimated between 0.1 and 5 megatons, significantly smaller than the Tunguska Event.[3][4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ziesler, R.; Ardizzone, G.D. (1979). "Amazon River System". The Inland waters of Latin America. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Amazon Region Map, Brazilian Ministry of Transport.
  3. 1 2 Reza, Ramiro de la. O evento do Curuçá: bólidos caem no Amazonas (The Curuçá Event: Bolides Fall in the Amazon) (Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: National Observatory. Retrieved from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas website.
  4. 1 2 Reza, Ramiro de la; Martini, P. R.; Brichta, A.; Lins de Barros, H.; Serra, P.R.M. The Event Near The Curuçá River, presented at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 67th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, August 2–6, 2004. Retrieved from Universities Space Research Association (USRA) website, Columbia, MD.
  5. ↑ Lienhard, John H. Meteorite at Curuçá, The Engines of Our Ingenuity, University of Houston with KUHF-FM Houston.
  6. ↑ McFarland, John. The Day the Earth Trembled, Armagh, Northern Ireland: Armagh Observatory website, last revised on November 10, 2009.


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