Araguarí

[ah-ruh-gwuh-ree]

noun

1. a city in central Brazil.

Example Sentences

The thundering waves of the Pororoca were legendary: Adventurers from the world over flew, drove, trekked, Jet-Skied and canoed to Brazil’s remote Araguari River to ride the Amazon’s stunning tidal bore that formed when water flowed in from the Atlantic.

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But the exhilarating waves that once reached five feet high are gone now, squelched by man-made factors, such as the large-scale ranching of Asian water buffaloes, an invasive species introduced to the Amazon decades ago, and new hydroelectric dams built along the Araguari.

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Surfers rode the last Pororoca on the Araguari River in 2013.

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The ranchers say two dams diminished the Araguari’s strength.

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Some blame the buffaloes: For years, ranchers have opened canals from the river to slake their herds’ thirst, while the buffaloes themselves trampled around the banks of the Araguari, depleting the river’s flow, according to environmental activists.

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