Pinheiros River

Pinheiros River
Pinheiros River
Native name	Rio Pinheiros  (Portuguese)
Location
Country	Brazil
Region	São Paulo city, São Paulo state
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	confluence of the Guarapiranga River and the Jurubatuba River, São Paulo city
Mouth
• location	Rio Tietê, São Paulo city
Length	25 km (16 mi)

The Pinheiros River (Portuguese: Rio Pinheiros[1]) is a most rectified inverted polluted water original sinuous course, today tributary of the Tietê River that runs 25 kilometres (16 mi) through the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Until 1920, the river was together the river Jurubatuba, a complex hydrography, most now disappeared. After being channelized and its direction inverted with Pumps at the called Usina da Traição, remained only as Pinheiros. In southern São Paulo the Pinheiros River is impounded in Billings Reservoir to generate energy at Henry Borden Hydroelectric at Cubatão.