Tapajós
Americannoun
noun
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“The people that live in villages along the Tapajós river are in extreme poverty,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2022
Golden mussels have been documented in the Pantanal wetlands just 150 kilometers from the Téles Pires River, which flows into the Amazon basin and connects to the Tapajós River, a tributary of the Amazon.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 2021
Recent testing showed Irene's blood with one of the highest levels of mercury in their village of Sawré Aboy, by the banks of the Tapajós river in the Amazon rainforest.
From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2021
When the miners showed up in indigenous villages along the Tapajós in 2015, they found communities in worse shape than their own.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2018
He wanted to firm up the details of his plan to go down the well-traveled Paraguay River and the Tapajós River all the way to where it met the Amazon River.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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