Madeira River

The Cuniã Ecological Station is located in the very southern reach of this ecoregion near the Madeira River, but no other protected areas exist.

Purus-Madeira moist forests 2008

These rivers converge to form the Madeira River, the major southern tributary of the Amazon River.

Beni savanna 2008

Average annual rainfall varies from 2,500 millimeters (mm) on some parts of the Madeira River to less than 2,000 mm in the easternmost sections of this ecoregion.

Monte Alegre varzea 2008

This interfluvial ecoregion is bound by the Purus and Solimões (Amazon) Rivers to the north and the Madeira River to the south.

Purus-Madeira moist forests 2008

These várzea host patches of grassland locally called canarana from the mouth of the Rio Negro down and along the Madeira River.

Monte Alegre varzea 2008

Most of the soy from Mato Grosso comes down the Madeira River on barges and then down the Amazon to Santarém, where it is off-loaded at a port Cargill has built right in the city.

The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007

The Las Piedras is a tributary to the Madre de Dios, which turns into the Madeira River and ultimately pours into the mighty Amazon, 1,000 miles northeast of here, in Brazil.

The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007

Once in Brazil he took passage on the old Madeira-Mamoré railway, a steam locomotive that ran two hundred miles through the forest to Porto Velho, then a small Brazilian trading center on the upper Madeira River.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Once in Brazil he took passage on the old Madeira-Mamoré railway, a steam locomotive that ran two hundred miles through the forest to Porto Velho, then a small Brazilian trading center on the upper Madeira River.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The twin-engine plane was cruising high above the Madeira River, an hour out of Manaus.

Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993