De Contas River
{{Short description|River in Bahia, Brazil}}
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The De Contas River (Portuguese: Rio de Contas) is a river of Bahia state in eastern Brazil. In Portuguese, it is sometimes erroneously called "Rio das Contas".In Portuguese the official and historical sources of Bahia always name it as "Rio de Contas" just like the city name; however, this entry cites a reference in Ceará, which uses the wrong denomination (see "Gestão Legal dos Recursos Hídricos dos Estados do Nordeste do Brasil"), to demonstrate the amplitude of its erroneous use. It is the main river of the hydrographic basin named after him.
Its source is in Tromba Mountain, between the municipalities of Piatã and Rio de Contas,( 13°16'48 S - 41°47'02 O ) passing through the cities of Abíra, Jussiape, Dom Basílio, Tanhaçu, Jequié (where the Pedras Dam was erected), Jitaúna, Ipiaú, Itagibá, Barra do Rocha, Ubatã, Ubaitaba and Aurelino Leal, to finally to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean in Itacaré.
Hydrographic basin
It is one of the sixteen hydrographic basins of the Brazilian state of Bahia, and is subordinate administratively to the National Department of Works to Combat Drought (DNOCS). The basin comprises its main effluents, which are: Brumado River, António River, Gongogi River, Jequiezinho River, Gavião River, Sincorá River and Jacaré River.{{cite web|url=http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_14929-544-1-30.pdf |title=Gestão Legal dos Recursos Hídricos dos Estados do Nordeste do Brasil |author=Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier, Nizomar Falcão Bezerra (org.) |date=2004|publisher=Fortaleza |access-date=13 January 2010 }}
It encompasses a territory of {{convert|55334|km2|mi2}}, with a population of 1,423,153 inhabitants (in 1991). Its economic uses are varied: irrigation, energy production, mining, and supplying the cities in its perimeter.
It is the largest basin that is entirely located in the Brazilian state of Bahia, in which are located 86 municipalities, a territory equivalent to 10.2 percent of the state territory.{{cite web|url=http://www.iesb.org.br/noticias/not0082.php |title=Comitê da Bacia do Rio de Contas |author=Instituto de Estudos Socio-ambientais do Sul da Bahia |date=2008 |access-date=13 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009154828/http://www.iesb.org.br/noticias/not0082.php |archivedate=9 October 2010 }}
Its limits: in west by the São Francisco Basin; in east by the Atlantic Ocean; in South by do Rio Pardo and Rio Colônia basins and the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais; and in North by the basins of the Paraguaçu River and Jequiriçá River.{{cite book|title=Anuário Estatístico da Bahia |author=SEI - Estado da Bahia |location=Salvador |year=2002 }}
See also
- List of rivers of Bahia
- Rio de Contas - Bahia city, by the banks of Brumado River, former De Contas Pequeno River
References
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- [https://www.gifex.com/imapa/americas/md_bahia_brazil.pdf Brazilian Ministry of Transport]
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