Marajó, the Glossary
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62 relations: Açaí palm, Afuá, American Museum of Natural History, Anajás, Andes, Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, Arecaceae, Atlantic Ocean, Bagre, Pará, Belém, Betty Meggers, Brazil, Breves, Pará, Cachoeira do Arari, Chaves, Pará, Clan, Curralinho, Endemic (epidemiology), Environmental determinism, Equator, Fazenda, Federative units of Brazil, Gurupá, Ildemar Alcântara, Immunity (medicine), Infection, Invasive species, Iuri Alcântara, Jacaré Grande River, List of islands by area, Marajó Archipelago, Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area, Marajó Bay, Marajó várzea, Marajoara culture, Matrilineality, Mauritia flexuosa, Melgaço, Pará, Monte de Teso dos Bichos, Muaná, National Museum of Brazil, Pará, Pará River, Ponta de Pedras, Pororoca, Portel, Pará, Pre-Columbian era, Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Marajó, Salvaterra, Pará, Santa Cruz do Arari, ... Expand index (12 more) »
- Islands of the Amazon
- Landforms of Pará
- River islands of Brazil
Açaí palm
The açaí palm (from Nheengatu asai), Euterpe oleracea, is a species of palm tree (Arecaceae) cultivated for its fruit (açaí berries, or simply açaí), hearts of palm (a vegetable), leaves, and trunk wood.
Afuá
Afuá is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Anajás
Anajás is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
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Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (born 1946) is an American archaeologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
Bagre, Pará
Bagre is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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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Betty Meggers
Betty Jane Meggers (December 5, 1921 – July 2, 2012) was an American archaeologist best known for her work in South America.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Breves, Pará
Breves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará, on the island of Marajó.
Cachoeira do Arari
Cachoeira do Arari is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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Chaves, Pará
Chaves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
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Curralinho
Curralinho is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
Endemic (epidemiology)
In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a specific population or populated place when that infection is constantly present, or maintained at a baseline level, without extra infections being brought into the group as a result of travel or similar means.
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Environmental determinism
Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular economic or social developmental (or even more generally, cultural) trajectories.
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Equator
The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Fazenda
A fazenda is a plantation found throughout Brazil during the colonial period (16th - 18th centuries).
Federative units of Brazil
The federative units of Brazil (unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation, and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which together form the Federative Republic of Brazil.
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Gurupá
Gurupá or Santo Antonio de Gurupá is a municipality on the Amazon River in state of Pará, northern Brazil located near the world's largest river island, Marajó, 300 km upstream from the upper mouth of the river on the Atlantic coast.
Ildemar Alcântara
Ildemar Alcântara (born 7 November 1982) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently competing in the light heavyweight division.
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Immunity (medicine)
In biology, immunity is the state of being insusceptible or resistant to a noxious agent or process, especially a pathogen or infectious disease.
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Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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Iuri Alcântara
Iuri Alcântara (born 4 August 1980) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competed in the UFC bantamweight division.
Jacaré Grande River
The Jacaré Grande River (Rio Jacaré Grande) is a river in the Pará state of north-central Brazil.
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List of islands by area
This list includes all islands in the world larger than.
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Marajó Archipelago
The Marajó Archipelago (arquipélago do Marajó) is the largest fluvial-maritime archipelago on Earth.
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Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area
The Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental Arquipélago do Marajó) is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil.
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Marajó Bay
Marajó Bay, the Marajoara Gulf or the Amazon Gulf, is a recessed body of water of the Brazilian coast located in the state of Pará.
Marajó várzea
The Marajó várzea (NT0138) is an ecoregion of seasonally and tidally flooded várzea forest in the Amazon biome.
Marajoara culture
The Marajoara or Marajó culture was an ancient pre-Columbian era culture that flourished on Marajó island at the mouth of the Amazon River in northern Brazil.
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Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
Mauritia flexuosa
Mauritia flexuosa, known as the moriche palm, ité palm, ita, buriti, muriti, miriti (Brazil), canangucho (Colombia), morete or acho (Ecuador), or aguaje (Peru), is a palm tree.
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Melgaço, Pará
Melgaço is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará.
Monte de Teso dos Bichos
The Monte de Teso dos Bichos (Teso dos Bichos Mount) is an embankment that forms an artificial mound, located at the archaeological site of Camutins on the island of Marajó in Brazil, a place where one of the most elaborate civilizations of the pre-Columbian Amazon existed (the indigenous Marajoara), occupying 2.5 hectares.
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Muaná
Muaná is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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National Museum of Brazil
The National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional) is the oldest scientific institution of Brazil.
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Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River.
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Pará River
The Pará River, also called Parauaú River, Jacaré Grande River, Marajó River Channel, Macacos River Channel, Santa Maria River Channel and Bocas Bay, is a watercourse and immense estuarine complex that functions as a canal between the rivers Amazon (Amazon delta), Tocantins, Campina Grande (or Portel Bay) and Marajó Bay, in addition to numerous other smaller rivers.
Ponta de Pedras
Ponta de Pedras is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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Pororoca
The Pororoca is a tidal bore, with waves up to high that travel as much as inland upstream on the Amazon River and adjacent rivers.
Portel, Pará
Portel is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
Pre-Columbian era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
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Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Marajó
The Territorial Prelature of Marajó (Praelatura Territorialis Maraiensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature located in the city of Marajó in the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.
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Salvaterra, Pará
Salvaterra is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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Santa Cruz do Arari
Santa Cruz do Arari is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
São Sebastião da Boa Vista
São Sebastião da Boa Vista is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará.
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Soure, Pará
Soure is a Brazilian municipality located in the northern state of Pará, on the island of Marajó, which is located in the Amazon River at its mouth.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Tidal bore
A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current.
Várzea forest
A várzea forest is a seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome.
Water buffalo
The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), also called the domestic water buffalo or Asian water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
See also
Islands of the Amazon
- Acarabu Island
- Bailique
- Caviana
- Ilha Grande de Gurupá
- Ilha de Santana
- Marajó
- Mosqueiro
- Tupinambarana
Landforms of Pará
- Carajás Mountains
- Caverna da Pedra Pintada
- Caviana
- Guajará Bay
- Ilha Grande de Gurupá
- Marajó
- Mosqueiro
- Serra do Acari
- Serra do Cachimbo
River islands of Brazil
- Bailique
- Bananal Island
- Brazilian Island
- Caviana
- Ilha Grande de Gurupá
- Ilha de Santana
- Kumarumã
- Marajó
- Mosqueiro
- Restinga Island
- Tupinambarana
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marajó
Also known as Ilha de Marajó, Ilha do Marajó, Isla de Marajó, Island of Marajó, Marajó Island, Mesorregião do Marajó.
, Savanna, São Sebastião da Boa Vista, Soure, Pará, South America, Spanish flu, Surfing, Swamp, Switzerland, Tidal bore, Várzea forest, Water buffalo, Wet season.