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Petrolina

American  
[pi-troo-lee-nah] / pɪ trʊˈli nɑ /

noun

  1. a city in NE Brazil.


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“If you leave a patch of the Atlantic rainforest it starts to grow back in 6 or 8 years,” says Renato Garcia Rodrigues, an ecologist at Univasf Petrolina.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

In the earlier case, prosecutors alleged that Sovfracht tried to pay an oil company in Cyprus, Petrolina, around $2.5 million “for the supply of fuel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2018

Sudene meanwhile is taking a giant step with a $90 million irrigation project at Petrolina that will water 250,000 long-parched acres in Bahia and Pernambuco.

From Time Magazine Archive

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