Tapajós

American  

[tah-puh-zhaws] / ˌtɑ pəˈʒɔs /

noun

1. a river flowing NE through central Brazil to the Amazon. 500 miles (800 km) long.

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Tapajós British  

/ tapaˈʒɔs /

noun

1. a river in N Brazil, rising in N central Mato Grosso and flowing northeast to the Amazon. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)

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Example Sentences

“The people that live in villages along the Tapajós river are in extreme poverty,” he said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2022

Golden mussels have been documented in the Pantanal wetlands just 150 kilometers from the Téles Pires River, which flows into the Amazon basin and connects to the Tapajós River, a tributary of the Amazon.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 20, 2021

Brazil's National Mining Agency estimated that year that wildcat gold miners were extracting some 30 tonnes of gold annually from the Tapajós watershed alone, using the toxic heavy metal mercury to separate gold from sediment.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2021

From the start, ineptitude and tragedy plagued the venture, meticulously documented in a book by the historian Greg Grandin that I read on the boat as it made its way up the Tapajós.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2017

He wanted to firm up the details of his plan to go down the well-traveled Paraguay River and the Tapajós River all the way to where it met the Amazon River.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple