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Amazonas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amazonas , state (1996 pop. 2,390,102), 604,032 sq mi (1,564,445 sq km), NW Brazil. The capital is Manaus .
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Venezuela
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...The Lost World. Further south is the Amazonas with its hot and humid tropical forest. The Amazonas region is sparsely populated even though...Indians occupy the remote Guianan and Amazonas interior; and blacks live along the Caribbean...
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Ticuna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Loreto in the province of Maynas; in Colombia, they inhabit the Amazon Trapeze in the Amazonas Commissariat; in Brazil, they live in the state of Amazonas, in the municipalities of San Pablo do Oliven ç a, San Antonio do I ç...
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Jivaro
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Wirtschaftliche und soziale Organisationsformen am peruanischen Amazonas. Vienna: Ö sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften...Karsten, Rafael (1935). "The Head-Hunters of Western Amazonas: The Life and Culture of the Jibaro Indians of Easten Ecuador...
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Baniwa-Curripaco-Wakuenai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...x2032; and 69 ° 50 ′ W, on the present-day borders of Brazil (Estado de Amazonas), Venezuela (Territ ó rio Federal Amazonas), and Colombia (Comissar í as del Guain í a/Vaup é s). In these...
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Brazil
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...049,975 sq km (2,722,000 sq mi), or about 40% of South America's total area. The Amazon River (R í o Amazonas) is, at 6,436 km (4,000 mi), the world's second-longest river after the Nile, although the Amazon ranks first...
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Statelessness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...raised such claims. These are mostly members of small ethnic tribes living at a subsistence level, such as natives of the Amazonas region or the Pygmies of Africa. Frequently, these people were driven into their current settlement areas by more powerful...
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Candoshi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...to 4 ° 30 ′ S and 76 ° 30/ to 77 ° W, in the department of Loreto, province of Alto, Amazonas, Peru. The Candoshi live on tributaries of the R í o Pastaza, the Chapara on tributaries of the R í o Morona...
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Chayahuita
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Friedrich Ebert. Fuentes, Aldo (1988). Porque las piedras no mueren: Historia, sociedad, y ritos de los chayahuita del alto Amazonas. Lima: Centro Amaz ó nico de Antropolog í a y Aplicaci ó n Pr á ctica. Ribeiro, Darcy...
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Waimiri-Atroari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...xEF; wa miri, meaning "small arrow"). Location. The Waimiri-Atroari occupy the extreme north of the state of Amazonas, south of Roraima, in the area of the Alala ù , Camana ù , and Curiua ù rivers and their headwaters...
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