Brazil Slide Series: Collection Belem Manaus, Slide No. 0040.

Creator

Herbert Knup
Jon M. Tolman
Siegfried Muhlhausser

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Publication Date

3-19-2009

Description

The Amazon river and in the background tropical forest vegetation. On the way to the Atlantic, the river changes names several times (six times in Peru alone) crossing the border into Brazil as the Solimões river and simply being referred to as the Amazon on its final stretch. It is nearly 6,700 km long.O Rio Amazonas e a floresta de vegetação tropical ao fundo. Em seu caminho de aproximadamente 6.700 km de extensão para o Atlântico,o rio muda de nome várias vezes (seis vezes no Peru) cruzando a fronteira do Brasil com o nome de Solimões e simplesmente sendo referido como Amazonas em seu desenvolvimento final.

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico

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Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1994