Tapajós
Americannoun
noun
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Their transshipment stations on the Tapajos and Madeira rivers have linked up the heart of Brazilian farm country and up-and-coming Amazonian ports such as Itacoatiara, Santarem and Barcarena.
From Reuters
Similar concerns surround an around 580 miles railway known as Ferrograo that would move grains from the heartland toward the Tapajos River for eventual shipping abroad.
From Washington Times
The influx posed a grave threat to Korap’s Munduruku people, 14,000-strong and spread throughout the Tapajos River Basin, in Para and Mato Grosso states.
From Seattle Times
“The people that live in villages along the Tapajós river are in extreme poverty,” he said.
From Washington Post
He said: “The shawara is their cosmology, their apocalyptic mythology. OK, that’s very comprehensible to me. I have mine, you have yours, they have theirs. But ask a Kayapó on the Xingu river or a Munduruku on the Tapajos. Ask them about gold mining. They have wanted to mine their land for the last 30 years.”
From New York Times
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