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Tapajós
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Tapajós (täpäzhôs`), river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, formed at the border of Mato Grosso, Pará, and Amazonas states, central Brazil, by the confluence of the Juruena and Teles Pirez rivers. It flows NE across W Pará into the Amazon River at Santarém. There are many falls and rapids on the river above Itaituba, the head of navigation and an important river port at the junction with the Trans-Amazon Highway. The Tapajós flows past important rubber plantations at Fordlandia and Belterra.
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2001), who documented the behavior of riparian populations living along the shores of the Tapajos River in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon.
New evidence on variations of human body burden of methylmercury from ... by Anderson, Robin / Environmental Health Perspectives
Two thirds of the Tapajos National Forest is inside the municipal boundary That's about 400,000 hectares," says Pantoja, Belterra's secretary of tourism and environment.
Henry Ford's Folly by Downie, Andrew / Latin Trade
The newly discovered species, the Satere marmoset (Callithrix saterei), is named for a group of Indians indigenous to the central Amazon area between the Madeira and Tapajos rivers where the first animals were collected.
NEW SPECIES OF MONKEY FOUND IN AMAZON RAIN FOREST by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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