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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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