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Santarém

American  
[san-tuh-rem, sahn-tah-ran] / ˌsæn təˈrɛm, ˌsɑ̃ tɑˈrɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.


Santarém British  
/ səntaˈrə̃j /

noun

  1. a port in N Brazil, in Pará state where the Tapajós River flows into the Amazon. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)

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The study examined more than three million hectares in Santarém and Paragominas, two regions in the Brazilian state of Pará, over the period from 2010 to 2020.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

Raimundo Barbosa, who farms cassava and fruit near the town of Boa Esperança outside Santarém in the southeastern Amazon, says when the forest is cleared "the environment is destroyed".

From BBC Nov. 16, 2025

He went home to Santarém in 2010 and set himself up as a consultant — an independent anthropologist with an unfinished degree and no clients in sight.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2022

The BR-163 connects the agricultural powerhouse state of Mato Grosso to the Amazon ports Miritituba and Santarém, and in November the army finished asphalting its last unpaved section.

From The Guardian Mar. 10, 2020

This wheat plantation near Santarém, Brazil, used to be virgin Amazon rainforest.

From Slate Nov. 29, 2013

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