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unusual facts about northern Brazil



Jamundá River

The 300 km long Jamunda river originates in the plateau Serra do Jatapu near the division of the northern Brazilian States of Roraima, Amazonas and Pará, from there it flows down, forming the natural division between Amazonas and Pará, crossing the Nhamunda-Mapuera national ecological reservation (EG033) before joining the Amazon River near the small village of Nhamundá.


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Brown-throated Parakeet

It is found widely in woodland, savanna and scrub in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, the ABC islands in the Netherlands Antilles, and northern Brazil (mainly the Rio Negro/Branco region) with a disjunct population in south-western Pará.

Colares stingray

The range of the Colares stingray appears restricted to the mouth of the Amazon River in northern Brazil, in the estuarine area affected by the river's freshwater discharge; it may also occur in adjacent areas as far as Venezuela.

The Colares stingray, Dasyatis colarensis, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, native to the shallow brackish waters of the Amazon River estuary in northern Brazil.

José Bragato

Three years after leaving Argentina he joined the University of Natal, in northern Brazil, where he played and taught chamber music.

Parribacus antarcticus

antarcticus is distributed along the western coast the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to northern Brazil, along the southern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, and in Hawaii and Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean.

Stigmaphyllon

One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

VLS-1 V03

On August 22, 2003, at 13:30 (local time) an explosion destroyed the launch vehicle as it stood on its launch pad at the Alcântara Launch Center in the state of Maranhão in northern Brazil.