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Orinoco River |
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Orinoco RiverMajor river, South America. It rises on the western slopes of the Parima Mountains along the border between Venezuela and Brazil. It flows in a giant arc through Venezuela for about 1,700 mi (2,740 km) and enters the Atlantic Ocean near the island of Trinidad. It forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela. With its tributaries, it is the northernmost of South America's four major river systems. The aquatic fauna include the piranhas and the Orinoco crocodile. The river basin is largely inhabited by indigenous Indian groups. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Brazil's state development bank BNDES is even spending $480 million in Venezuela building a bridge and highway over the Orinoco River, to create a new trade route for Brazilian soy. Varo's interest in scientific discovery, reflected even in the titles of her works, extended to cosmology, evolution, astronomy, and genetics: The Phenomenon of Weightlessness, Cosmic Energy, Weaving of Space and Time, Creation of the Birds, Discovery of a Mutant Geologist, Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River, Vegetal Architecture. And, as amazing as it may seem in this day of ubiquitous television, the same kid who knows that cocoa is produced in the Ashanti region of Ghana, and that the mouth of the Orinoco River is north of the mouth of the Zambezi River, had never even heard of NBC's Katie Couric. |
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