Amazonas
Americannoun
noun
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Satellite images of Yapacana National Park in Amazonas show deep gashes in the earth, where miners have dug enormous open pits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Ibama's technical staff noted in February that drilling conditions were very challenging in the Foz de Amazonas basin, prone to intense storms and strong ocean currents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Everywhere you drive or fly over in the south of Amazonas state, mines, loggers and farms are visible.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
In Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, the first cases in the current outbreak were detected near recently deforested areas.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 4, 2024
The idea came slowly; but it dawned, something like the conception of astronomy’s amplitudes, of the remoteness of the beyond of Amazonas, that new world I had just entered.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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