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Juruena, Arapiuns. • right. Teles Pires, Cururu, Das Tropas, Crepori, Jamanxim. The Tapajós ( Portuguese: Rio Tapajós [ˈʁi.u tɐpɐˈʒɔs]) is a river in Brazil. It runs through the Amazon Rainforest and is a major tributary of the Amazon River. When combined with the Juruena River, the Tapajós is approximately 2,080 km (1,290 mi) long. [2]
About 3,000 [ 1] Fordlândia ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fɔʁdʒiˈlɐ̃dʒjɐ], Ford-land) is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro, in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the city of Santarém .
The Tapajós, also called the Santarém culture, were Indigenous Brazilian people, now extinct, who in the 17th century lived in the area around where the Tapajós flowed into the Amazon River, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. [ 1] Tapajó. Tapajocos. Region. Tapajós and Amazon Rivers. Era. attested 17th century.
The Xingu River ( / ʃiːŋˈɡuː / sheeng-GOO; Portuguese: Rio Xingu, Portuguese pronunciation: [ʃĩˈɡu]; Mẽbêngôkre: Byti, [bɯˈti][ 5]: 73 ) is a 1,640 km (1,020 mi) [ 1] river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in the Amazon basin, [ 6] accounting for about 5% ...
White-faced saki. The white-faced saki ( Pithecia pithecia ), called the Guianan saki and the golden-faced saki, is a species of the New World saki monkey. They can be found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. This species lives in the understory and lower canopy of the forest, feeding mostly on fruits, nuts, seeds, and ...
The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance was the first of many so-called "mutual security agreements", [ 14] and the formalization of the Act of Chapultepec. The treaty was adopted by the original signatories on 2 September 1947 in Rio de Janeiro (hence the colloquial name "Rio Treaty"). It came into force on 3 December 1948 and was ...
The Tapajós National Forest has an area of 549,066.87 hectares (1,356,773.8 acres). [1] It is in the municipalities of Belterra, Aveiro, Rurópolis and Placas in the state of Pará. [2] The unit is bounded by the Tapajós, the Cupari River, a tributary of the Tapajós, and the BR-163 Santarém–Cuiabá road. Part of the forest drains into the ...
Potamotrygonidae. River stingrays or freshwater stingrays are Neotropical freshwater fishes of the family Potamotrygonidae in the order Myliobatiformes, one of the four orders of batoids, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are found in rivers in tropical and subtropical South America (freshwater stingrays in Africa, Asia and Australia ...