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Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, the Glossary

Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (27 April 1756 – 23 April 1815) was a Portuguese naturalist born in Brazil.^[1]

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Brazilian explorers
Explorers of Amazonia
Portuguese explorers of South America
Portuguese scientists

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Alcobaça, Bahia

Alcobaça is a municipality of Bahia, Brazil.

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Alexandresaurus

Alexandresaurus is a genus of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Baião, Pará

Baião, Pará is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.

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Belém

Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.

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Black arowana

The black arowana (Osteoglossum ferreirai) is a South American freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae.

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Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra

The Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra (or simply Jardim Botânico) is a botanical garden in Coimbra, Portugal.

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Branco River

The Branco River (Rio Branco; Engl: White River) is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro from the north.

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Brazilian snapper

The Brazilian snapper, (Lutjanus alexandrei) is a species of snapper native to the tropical waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil.

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Cametá

Cametá is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará.

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Captaincy

A captaincy (capitanía, capitania, kapetanija) is a historical administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.

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Cuiabá

Cuiabá is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

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Cuiabá River

The Cuiabá River (Portuguese: Rio Cuiabá) is a Brazilian river in the western state of Mato Grosso that flows in the Río de la Plata Basin.

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Digital object identifier

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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Domenico Vandelli

Domenico Agostino Vandelli (Padua, 8 July 1735 – Lisbon, 27 June 1816) was an Italian naturalist, who did most of his scientific work in Portugal.

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Exploration

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Goiás

Goiás is a Brazilian state located in the Midwest region.

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Guaporé River

Guaporé River (Rio Guaporé, Río Iténez) is a river in western Brazil and northeastern Bolivia.

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ISSN

An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication (periodical), such as a magazine.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Lisbon Academy of Sciences

The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) is Portugal's national academy dedicated to the advancement of sciences and learning, with the goal of promoting academic progress and prosperity in Portugal.

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Loxopholis ferreirai

Loxopholis ferreirai is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.

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Madeira River

The Madeira River (Rio Madeira) is a major waterway in South America.

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Marajó

Marajó is a large coastal island in the state of Pará, Brazil.

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Maria I of Portugal

Dona Maria I (17 December 1734 – 20 March 1816) was Queen of Portugal from 24 February 1777 until her death in 1816.

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Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso (–) is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region.

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Military Order of Christ

The Military Order of Christ is the former order of Knights Templar as it was reconstituted in Portugal.

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 census.

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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, commonly shortened MPEG, is a Brazilian research institution and museum located in the city of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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Paraguay River

The Paraguay River (Ysyry Paraguái in Guarani, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, Río Paraguay in Spanish) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.

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Pederneiras

Pederneiras is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

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Placer deposit

In geology, a placer deposit or placer is an accumulation of valuable minerals formed by gravity separation from a specific source rock during sedimentary processes.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Rio Negro (Amazon)

The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Rodrigues_Ferreira

Also known as Rodrigues Ferreira, Alexandre.

Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, the Glossary

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See also

Brazilian explorers

Explorers of Amazonia

Portuguese explorers of South America

Portuguese scientists

References