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Saco River (Paracauari)

The Saco River () is a river of Marajó, which itself is an island in the mouth of the Amazon. It is a left tributary of the Paracauari River.

Location

The Saco river is on Marajó island in Pará state, and is contained within the Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area. It is a left tributary of the Paracauari River, which enters the Atlantic at Soure, Pará. The mangroves of the left (east) bank of the Saco are protected by the Soure Marine Extractive Reserve. This covers of typical mangroves forest and tidal waters.

There is a mangrove section called Manguezal do Rio do Saco along the river with area of about . The climate is equatorial Amazon.

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