The headwaters of the river are protected by the 30,619 hectares (75,660 acres) Nascentes do Rio Taquari State Park, created in 1999.

[1] The Taquari river complex has over recent decades been subject to various course changes and avulsions, partly through faults and crevasses in natural levees.

[2] Extensive and complex changes in water pathways have caused large scale redistribution of sediment and flooding of previously cultivated land.

These processes, which are ongoing, have forced many farmers to abandon the region and hampered planning of future development over a very large area.

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