NEGRO, RÍO, River, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil

river, c.1,400 mi (2,250 km) long, rising as the Guainía River in E Colombia where it flows NE before turning south to form part of the Colombia-Venezuela border. It then flows SE through Amazonas state, Brazil, to the Amazon near Manaus. The river is filled with islands and has many secondary channels. Its main tributary is the Río Branco. The Río Negro is connected with the Orinoco basin by the Casiquiare, a natural canal. An important commercial channel (rubber and nuts are shipped on it), the Río Negro was discovered (1638) by Pedro Teixeira, a Portuguese explorer. The river was named for its black color, which results from vegetal debris, not sediment.

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books on: Negro RIo River Colombia Venezuela and Brazil  - 17 results

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Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Book by Thomas A. Gregor, Donald Tuzin; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Social Life And Customs, Gender Identity--Amazon River Region, Gender Identity--Melanesia, Kinship--Amazon River Region, Kinship--Melanesia, Melanesia--Social Life And Customs, Sex Differences, Sex Role--Amazon River Region, Sex Role--Melanesia
...Guainia and Isana rivers and their tributaries...headwaters of the Rio Negro in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. About 1,600...along the Guainia River in Colombia Journet 1988 and...Guainia River in Venezuela and Colombia. 5...
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Archeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Amazon
Book by Betty J. Meggers, Clifford Evans; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957
Subjects: Amapaa (Brazil : Territory)--Antiquities, Indians Of South America--Brazil, Marajao Island (Brazil)--Antiquities
...eastward down river , with a source...movement up the Rio Negro and down the...through Ecuador and Colombia, so as to enter Venezuela from the west...coast to eastern Venezuela The first two...Ecuador, and Colombia into Venezuela...
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Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy along the Amazon
Book by Michael Goulding, Nigel J. H. Smith, Dennis J. Mahar; Columbia University Press, 1996
Subjects: Amazon River Valley--Environmental Conditions, Ecosystem Management--Amazon River Valley, Endangered Ecosystems--Amazon River Valley, Floodplain Ecology--Amazon River Valley, Nature--Effect Of Human Beings On--Amazon River Valley
...is the largest river system in the world...The three largest rivers--the Amazon, Rio Negro, and Rio Madeira--flow...minimal. The Amazon River drops only fifty...integration by connecting Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay...
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Latin America: Countrysides and United Regions
Book by Robert S. Platt; McGraw-Hill, 1942
Subjects: Latin America--Description And Travel
...Sul, state, Brazil, 395 , 405 Rio Guaire, Venezuela, 191 Rio Huallaga, Peru...305 , 316 Rio Negro, Argentina...466 , 476 Brazil, 406 , 466...474 , 476 Colombia, 228 Rio Palca...Ecuador, 259 River transportation...
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The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Book by Ross A. Slotten; Columbia University Press, 2004
Subjects: Naturalists--England--Biography, Socialists--England--Biography, Spiritualists--England--Biography, Wallace, Alfred Russel--1823-1913
...tween the Rio Negro and the Andes...east of the river. A species...watershed up to the Rio Negro but not...and the upper Rio Negro toward...the Amazon and Rio Negro and including parts of Venezuela), the Ecuador...and parts of Colombia), the Peru...and the Brazil (east of the...three great rivers coursing down...
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journal articles on: Negro RIo River Colombia Venezuela and Brazil  - 5 results

 
 
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Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in an Amazonian Society
Journal article by Jonathan D. Hill; Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 27, 1990
Subjects: Folklore
...Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. The indigenous...of the Upper Rio Negro region are added...lands among Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela was an historical...forth between river systems has...between the rivers and forests...
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African American Popular and Scholarly Interest in Central and South America, 1960 to 2005
Journal article by Jr. Robert Fikes; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 29, 2005
Subjects: Book publishing--Research, Businessmen--Research, Publishing industry--Research, Rutgers University Press, University of Missouri Press
...establish "Negro colonies" in...Amalgamation Work in Brazil?" by its international...toward a white Brazil. The darker...Alliance in Rio de Janeiro in...racial scene in Brazil as he experienced...the Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Dispute...University on river blindness among...Expression in Colombia (2000). It...
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Forbidden Fruit: Infidelity, Affinity and Brideservice among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia
Journal article by Bartholomew Dean; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 1, 1995
Subjects: Adultery--Research, Equality--Research, Ethnology--Peru, Peru--Social aspects, Social status--Research, South American native peoples--Peru
...Chambira and Pangayacu rivers. Those involved...on the Chambira river. When Audi subsequently...Yecuana Indians of Venezuela. Cornell Univ...Indians of Central Brazil. New York: Holt...rain forest of the Rio Negro basin. In Adaptive...
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A History of Inter-american Relations-print, Politics, and Commerce in the United States and Mexico, 1800-1830
Journal article by Nancy Vogeley; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 101, 2011
Subjects: Academic libraries, American literature, Books, Letters, Postcolonialism, Society
...across New York and the Delaware River valley demanded their own language...that differentiated them from Negroes already in the city.40 With...towns along the Mississippi River basin entered the linguistic...supplies entered the Mississippi River to go upriver to Natchez, St...
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Dracunculiasis in the Caribbean and South America: a Contribution to the History of Dracunculiasis Eradication
Journal article by Susan Watts; Medical History, Vol. 44, 2000
...Magazin of Negroes, while the...Granada (Colombia); between...1807, in Brazil, slaves...performed by the negro doctor in...coast of Venezuela and a station...among "field negroes" (i.e...oldest in Brazil. He began...president of Brazil after the...elite in Rio de Janiero...Francisco River, about 500...


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magazine articles on: Negro RIo River Colombia Venezuela and Brazil  - 3 results

 
 
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A Monstrous Error of Geography? Aside from Death and Taxes, There Are Few Things in Life That One Can Take for Granted. but You Can Always Rely on Water to Flow Downhill. or Can You? Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt Travel Deep into the Amazon Jungle in Search of a River That Seems to Break This Golden Rule of Geography
Magazine article by Richard Starks, Miriam Murcutt; Geographical, Vol. 78, July 2006
Subjects: Amazon River region--Description and travel, Amazon River--Description and travel, Rivers--Description and travel, Venezuela--Description and travel, Venezuela--Environmental aspects
...Orinoco in Venezuela and hadnt...borders of Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil converge...Casiquiare to the Rio Negro, which flows...election time in Venezuela, and the...believe a river could flow...confirmed the rivers existence...
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A New Species of Tourists
Magazine article by Geri Smith; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 42, November 1990
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Description and travel, Travel industry--Amazon River Region
...hours up the Rio Negro by boat from...mammals. And in Rio de Janeiro...mighty Amazon river carries not...Expeditions in Rio de Janeiro...Cooperation Treaty-Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador...Suriname and Venezuela. By 1999...
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Ictm 41st World Conference - Conference Update
Magazine article; Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music, April 2011
...Dominigues Hoffmann (Brazil). "Notes about...Magalhaes-Castro (Brazil). "...mas...in Amazonian Rio Negro Highlands...Samuel Araujo (Brazil). "Music...the Warao of Venezuela." 3. Bernd...Sacrament: Whiskey River Landing and Deviance...


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encyclopedia articles on: Negro RIo River Colombia Venezuela and Brazil  - 2 results

 
 
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Negro, RÍo , River, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NEGRO, RIO , river, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil , river, c.1,400 mi (2...rising as the Guainia River in E Colombia where it flows NE before turning...channels. Its main tributary is the Rio Branco. The Rio Negro is connected...
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Amazon , River, Peru and Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...most of N Brazil but also...Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. For most...gradient of the river is very low...Ecuador, and Colombia have international...highlands of Brazil and Guiana...with the Rio Negro). Of the...and Xingu rivers, which enter...


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