As stated earlier, Rasterio uses GDAL, meaning it's one of its dependencies. Python package dependencies are affine, cligj, click, enum34, and numpy.
The documentation for Rasterio can be found here: https://mapbox.github.io/rasterio/
Rasterio dependencies
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