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Exploring the Amazon River Summary
1,536 words, approx. 5 pages Portuguese captain Pedro de Teixeira (1587-1641) led the first full-length upstream exploration of the Amazon River in 1637. Taking almost two years to complete, the expedition covered more than 3,500 land and nautical miles (5,633 km)....
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 The Amazon River or River Amazon (Portuguese: Rio Amazonas; Spanish: Río Amazonas) of South America is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top ten largest rivers flowing into the ocean combined. The...




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Whale that got lost and swam up Amazon River found dead
11/21/2007: 270 words, approx. 1 pages A whale that got lost and swam some 1,300 kilometers (810 miles) up the Amazon River died after a failed effort to capture it and transport it back to the ocean, an environmental official said Wednesday.The 5.5-meter (18-foot) minke whale was stranded on sandbars at...
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From the jungle to Giants Stadium
7/7/2007: 375 words, approx. 1 pages A former farmer from Ecuador went from battling oil companies in the Amazon to rubbing elbows Saturday with the world's musical elite, a journey he hopes will bring attention to his environmental lawsuit.Pablo Fajardo, 34, is the lead attorney in a $6 billion claim against...
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Brazil launches anti-deforestation plan
12/21/2007: 386 words, approx. 1 pages Brazil announced Friday it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal police to the Amazon River basin in a new effort to monitor and prevent deforestation in the environmentally sensitive region.The initiative is designed to identify illegal deforestation and will ban the...
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Man ends 9-week, 3,272-mile Amazon swim
4/8/2007: 888 words, approx. 3 pages After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance _ something he's already done three times before.After nine weeks, Martin Strel arrived near the city...


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