Oyapock
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The Oyapock or Oiapoque ( ; ; ) is a long river in South America that forms most of the border between the French overseas department of French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapá.
Key facts
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- View of the Oyapock River from Brazil toward French Guiana
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- File:Guyane Oyapock River map.svg
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- Guyane Oyapock River map
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- Brazil and France
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- Near mouth
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- Tumuk Humak Mountains
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- Atlantic Ocean
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- Oyapock River Bridge
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Course
- History
- Settlements
- Bridge
- In popular culture
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- References
The Oyapock or Oiapoque ( ; ; ) is a long river in South America that forms most of the border between the French overseas department of French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapá.
==Course== The Oyapock runs through the Guianan moist forests ecoregion. It rises in the Tumuk Humak () mountain range and flows into the Atlantic Ocean, where its estuary forms a large bay bordering on Cape Orange.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oyapock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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