Tapajós
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Brazil's National Mining Agency estimated that year that wildcat gold miners were extracting some 30 tonnes of gold annually from the Tapajós watershed alone, using the toxic heavy metal mercury to separate gold from sediment.
From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2021
The situation is different at each of the 130 or so Munduruku communities, which sit along the Tapajós and its tributaries.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2019
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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