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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CORUMBA , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

RIVER

river See also:

PORT

port of See also:

Brazil on the W. See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

PARAGUAY

Paraguay river, 1986 m. above Buenos Aires and 486 m. above the Paraguayan frontier. Pop. (189o) 8414. Corumba is a fortified military See also:

POST

post, has the large Ladario See also:

NAVAL

naval See also:

ARSENAL

arsenal, where small river boats are built and repaired, and is the commercial entrep6t of the See also:

state of Matto Grosso. It is near the Bolivian frontier and is strongly garrisoned. Although the See also:

CLIMATE

climate is extremely hot, the neighbouring 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 has many large See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle farms. Corumba is one of the most important places in the interior of Brazil.

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