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
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
“We’re predicting an increase in the volume of the Araguaia River, which will fill the Tocantins River even more,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2021
The United Nations Development Program, the city of Palmas and the state of Tocantins also are lending support.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2015
Mr. Bates was more successful here than on his excursion up the Tocantins, and obtained twenty new species of fishes, and many new and conspicuous insects, apparently peculiar to this part of the Amazonian valley.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
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