title: Meriti River
text: # Meriti River
  
  The Meriti is a river in Rio de Janeiro state in south-eastern Brazil.
  
  It separates the municipalities of Duque de Caxias and São João de Meriti (north) from the state capital of Rio de Janeiro (south). Its mouth is at Guanabara Bay.
  
  The name is of Tupi origin and means "water of the buriti" (from mburi'ti ("buriti") and 'y ("water")).
  
  