Putumayo

[ poo-too-mah-yaw ]

noun

1. a river in NW South America, flowing SE from S Colombia into the Amazon in NW Brazil. 900 miles (1,450 km) long.

Putumayo

/ putuˈmajo /

noun

1. a river in NW South America, rising in S Colombia and flowing southeast as most of the border between Colombia and Peru, entering the Amazon in Brazil: scene of the Putumayo rubber scandal (1910–11) during the rubber boom, in which many Indians were enslaved and killed by rubber exploiters. Length: 1578 km (980 miles) Brazilian nameIçá

Example Sentences

But even cancer and the Putumayo are not a denial of what Stevenson called "the ultimate decency of things."

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As for the Putumayo region, it was practically unknown until the last decade of the nineteenth century.

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The first result of the publication of the Putumayo atrocities in the London Press was denial.

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The first contingent of these men, imported by Arana Brothers, reached the Putumayo at the end of 1904.

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A small traffic with the rubber-collectors of the Upper Putumayo and the neighbouring Indians is, however, still carried on.

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