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ARAGUAYA, ARAGUAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ARAGUAYA, ARAGUAY

ARAGUAYA, ARAGUAY Or ARAGUIA, a See also:

RIVER

river of See also:

Brazil and See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal affluent of the Tocantins, rising in the Serra do Cayap6, where it is known as the Rio Grande, and flowing in a See also:

north by See also:

east direction to a junction with the Tocantins at Sao Joao do Araguaya, or Sao Joao das Duas See also:

BARRAS, PAUL FRANCOIS NICOLAS, COMTE DE (1755-1829)

Barras. Its upper course forms the boundary See also:

LINE

line between See also:

GOYAZ

Goyaz and Matto Grosso. The river divides into two branches at about 13° 20' S. See also:

lat., and unites again at ro° 30', forming the large See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

SANTA

Santa See also:

Anna or Bananal. The eastern See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch, called the Furo, is the one used by boats, as the See also:

main channel is obstructed by rapids. Its principal affluent is the Rio das Mortes, which rises in the Serra de Sao Jeronymo, near See also:

CUYABA, or CUTABA

Cuyaba, Matto Grosso, and is utilized by boatmen going to See also:

Para. Of other affluents, the Bonito, Garcas, Cristallino and Tapirape on the See also:

west, and the Pitombas, Claro, Vermelho, Tucupa and Chavante on the east, nothing definite is known as the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is still largely unexplored. The Araguaya has a course of ro8o m., considerable stretches of which are navigable for small river steamers, but as the river below Santa Anna Island is interrupted by reefs and rapids in two places—one having a fall of 85 ft. in 18 m., and the other a fall of 50 ft. in 12 m.—it affords no practicable outlet for the products of the See also:

state. It was explored in See also:

PART

part by See also:

HENRI

Henri Coudreau in 1897. See Coudreau's Voyage au Tocantins-Araguaya (See also:

Paris, 1897).

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