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Neotropical > Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea (NT0156)

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Caqueta River, Brazil

Caqueta River, Brazil Photograph by WWF/ Carlos Saenz

 The Red or White uakari (<I>Cacajao rubicundus</I>) with its distinctive crimson face, lives only in the Varzea flooded forests of the Upper Amazon.

The Red or White uakari (Cacajao rubicundus) with its distinctive crimson face, lives only in the Varzea flooded forests of the Upper Amazon. Photograph by © WWF-Canon/Edward PARKER
   

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