Curuçá River (Javari River tributary)
Curuçá River is a river of Amazonas state in northwestern Brazil. It is entirely within the municipality of Atalaia do Norte. Curuçá is a tributary of the Javary River.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. The mass of the meteorite was estimated at between, with an energy release estimated between 0.1 and 5 megatons, significantly smaller than the Tunguska Event.
