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Javari

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a river in South America, flowing northeast as part of the border between Peru and Brazil to join the Amazon. Length: about 1050 km (650 miles)
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Javarí

 

a river in South America, a right tributary of the Amazon. Except for its upper reaches, it is the border between Brazil and Peru. Length, 1,056 km. The river rises in Peru, in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes (the Montana), and it flows through the Amazon lowland. It is fed by rain. The high-water period is from December to April. The Javari is navigable for 500 km by small vessels.

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They will use four boats as well as helicopters to reach the tribe in the most remote and dense forest of Brazil - the Javari territory covers an area of 32,000 square miles.
The Javari Valley reservation, Brazil's second largest after the Yanomami reservation, stretches over 85,444 square kilometers (32,990 square miles) to the Peruvian border.
First, it was mentioned by an armed forces official referencing a "slave labour" incident among Peruvians logging wood along the Javari River on the border of Brazil and Peru that resulted in "robbery of riches" (referring as much to wood as the humanitarian and health assistance that the Army lends to 'foreigners' in cases of emergency).
Es una de las grandes ironias de la historia sudamericana que fueran los desplazados de Brasil en las tierras de Acre, del Purus, del Javari y del Jurua, quienes proveerian a da Cunha su brillante estrategia de reclamo de soberania nacional a inicios del siglo XX, cuando las diez naciones sudamericanas, embriones post-revolucionarios, se disputaban, con mayor o menor violencia, un interior "desconocido" y "remoto", por cartografiarse, haciendo alusion a tratados o acuerdos coloniales, la mayoria caducos en el entramado de los litigios republicanos: el Tratado de Tordesillas, de 1494; el Tratado de Utrecht, de 1713; el Tratado de Madrid, de 1750; el Tratado de San Idelfonso, de 1777; el Tratado de Amistad y Navegacion de Ayacucho, de 1867 ...
Um deles foi Gonzago, vindo do Ceara no ano de 1908 e que trabalhou como seringueiro nas proximidades do rio Javari. Casou-se tres vezes (com migrantes nordestinas), gerando nesses tres matrimonios vinte e um filhos.
O bijou tinha por desti nataria Nair de Teffe von Hoonholtz, filha do barao de Teffe,14 neta do conde von Hoonholtz, sobrinha do barao de Javari, prima-irma da condessa de Frontin, e esposa do marechal.
1, indigenous groups from the Vale do Javari in the state of Amazonas met with representatives from ANP at the FUNAI headquarters in Brasilia.
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