Tocantins
Americannoun
noun
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a state of N Brazil, created from the northern part of Goiás state in 1988. Capital: Palmas. Pop: 1 207 014 (2002). Area: 278 421 sq km (107 499 sq miles)
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a river in E Brazil, rising in S central Goiás state and flowing generally north to the Pará River. Length: about 2700 km (1700 miles)
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Four people are known to have died, and more than 10 are missing after the central span of the bridge linking Tocantins and Maranhão states gave way on Sunday afternoon.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024
“I thought he wanted to escape to Brazil,” Tocantins state prosecutor Rafael Pinto Alamy told the Associated Press on Thursday.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023
The line connects Santos port to farm states Tocantins, Goias, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso, reinforcing another key route to get Brazilian harvests to global markets.
From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2023
For his master’s thesis, Luz went to Tocantins in 2004 to study the Xerénte, a group that spoke Portuguese widely and had long been in contact with the outside world.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022
The state lies wholly within the great Brazilian plateau region, but its surface is much broken towards the N. by the deeply eroded valleys of the Araguaya and Upper Tocantins rivers and their tributaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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