The aquatic environments of the Amazon region present a wide environmental heterogeneity in the rivers that form the watershed and are influenced by the different landscape formations composed by interactive ecosystems and climatic, geological and vegetation conditions (Rebouças et al., 1999; Silva et al., 2013). The Amazon river is the main river system of the basin and drains water from various tributaries. This massive number of tributaries and their heterogeneity allow the interaction between water bodies with different environmental gradients without immediately mixing (Franzinelli, 2011), which forms an extensive confluence border, such as that observed between the Tapajós and Amazon rivers, in the lower Amazon region, Brazil. The confluence zones between rivers are extremely important for aquatic communities, as they provide particular habitats, favor biodiversity and harbor intense ecological functions, acting as biological hotspots (Benda et al., 2004; Rice et al., 2008). These ecotones function as a key habitat structure and work as filters in the dispersion of fish in river systems, influencing changes in species composition at small spatial scales (Czeglédi et al., 2016; Thornbrugh & Gido, 2010). In addition, they constitute spatial elements of the