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The names of the wate
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The various stretches of water, basins and lagoons are named after a regional terminology, deriving from their forms and functions:
- The vazantes are large depressions situated between the cordilheiras, lacking a clearly defined channel. During the flood season, these depressions drain intermittent streams, extending for several kilometres
- The corixos, unlike the vazantes, are small permanent watercourses connecting adjacent baías with narrower and much deeper channels
- The banhados are the flatlands and areas near the rivers that are periodically flooded during the wet season
- The baías are low-lying areas of circular, semicircular, or irregular shape, which have standing water, sometimes saline; their linear dimensions vary from tens to hundreds of meters.