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  PARA - LoveToKnow Article on PARA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From the north seven large tributaries are received the Jamunda (which forms the boundary line with Amazonas), Trombetas, Maecuru, Jauary, Parti, Jary and Anauera-pucu.
The first is, strictly speaking, a tributary cf the Trombetas, though several furos connect with the Amazon before its main channel opens into the Trombetas.
All these rivers have their sources on the Guiana highlands within the limits of the state, and flow southward to the Amazon over numerous rapids and falls, with comparatively short navigable channels before entering the great river.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PARA.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Mycorrhizal Citations
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi occurrence in revegetated areas after bauxite mining at Porto Trombetas, Para State, Brazil.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the structure and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in revegetated areas at Porto Trombetas, Para, Brazil.
Composite samples were collected in August (dry season) and April (wet season) in areas with top soil after 2, 4, 6, 12 and 16 years of revegetation, in area without the top soil or vegetation, and in a pristine forest.
mycorrhiza.ag.utk.edu /latest/latest04/04_2capro1.htm   (231 words)

  
 Trombetas River --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Formed by the Poana, Anamu, and other headstreams flowing from the southern slope of the Serra Acaraí on the Guyana border, the Trombetas meanders generally southward for 470 mi (760 km).
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Óbidos overlooks the left (north) bank of the Amazon River 70 miles (110 km) upstream from Santarém near the confluence of the Trombetas River, where the Amazon narrows to a width of 1.25 miles (2 km).
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073485?tocId=9073485   (769 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This text is part of one of the strategies adopted by ARQMO and CPI-SP to delimit the boundaries of the Quilombolas' land in the Trombetas River Basin, in preparation for a petition to the Judiciary Authorities, through a legal action to be filed by the Attorney General of the Republic.
THE ORIGIN OF THE QUILOMBOS ON THE TROMBETAS RIVER African slaves were brought to the Lower Amazon River region to serve as labor on the cocoa bean plantations and cattle farms near the cities of Santarém and Óbidos (Tavares Bastos 1937:199).
At present the Quilombos in the Trombetas River Basin and the Lower Amazon are structured in rural communities located in the municipalities of Oriximiná, Óbidos and Alenquer, in the State of Pará.
www.quilombo.org.br /quilombo/doc/ing_quilombosdoriotrombetas.doc   (5138 words)

  
 Trombetas: the world's largest bauxite mine - Amazonia.org.br   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Porto Trombetas - From the terrace of the meeting room, mining engineer José Carlos Soares, 52, has a perfect view of the Trombetas river and the private port operated dby the Rio do Norte Mining Company (MRN), where enormous ships are loaded with bauxite, the raw material in the production of aluminium.
Located between the Trombetas river and the Saraca-Taquera National Forest in the municipality of Oriximina, 880 kilometres from Belem, the site is now the largest bauxite mine in the world.
He has worked at Porto Trombetas since 1979 and is now director of the project.
www.amazonia.org.br /english/noticias/print.cfm?id=71557   (610 words)

  
 Jesus, me chicoteia! || Os israelitas partem do Sinai (   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As trombetas servirão também para sinalizar a partida da caravana, pra não embolar todo mundo e virar aquela zona.
Aí as trombetas serão tocadas novamente: Pá-pá-pá-pá, e então será a vez das tribos acampadas ao sul, e assim por diante, seguindo a seqüência determinada.
E nas festas as trombetas também deverão ser tocadas, que é pra eu lembrar que é dia de festa e botar uma roupa maneira.
www.jesusmechicoteia.com.br /archives/005614.html   (850 words)

  
 Trombetas province;   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trombetas geological province is’t well known up to now.
The upper Trombetas basin are covered by volcanic, volcanoclastic and granitic rocks of proteozoic (1800 to 1500MA).
When we compare the geological/mineralisation setting of Trombetas ara with tapajos (V’s model) it’s easy to prove their similarity.
www.amazonmyths.com.br /trombetas.htm   (204 words)

  
 DIALOG Dissertation Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benthic macroinvertebrate communities were studied on igarapes Saraca, Carana, Agua Fria and Trombetas River on Porto Trombetas, Municipality of Oriximina, Para, Brazil (1 degree 25' and 1 deg 35'South and 56 deg 15' and 56 deg 25'West).
On the Trombetas River, discharges of mineral occur accidentally and are deposited on the sediment.
It was evidenced the possibility of using benthic macroinvertebrates as indicators of ecological conditions of these ecosystems pointing out the temporal (rainy and dry seasons of 1994 and 1995) and spatial changes (natural sample stations and impacted sample stations influenced by the activities of bauxite mining).
www.aslo.org /phd/dialog/1996January-5.html   (355 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests (NT0173)
Beside the Rio Negro, Rio Branco and the Amazon Rivers which delimit two sides of this ecoregion, the Uatuma-Trombetas moist forest region is dissected by a number of flwater or clearwater rivers, the Trombetas and Jari Rivers being the largest.
The forests to the west of the Trombetas River are characterized by a dense vegetation with a high number of small-diameter (less than 200 mm) to medium-diameter (200 to 600 mm) stems and a canopy height varying from 20 to 30 m, with emergent trees to 40 m.
East of the Trombetas River, as in the Jari River Basin in the center of the region, the forests are more homogeneous in structure, but similar in stature and composition.
www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0173_full.html   (1451 words)

  
 Reporter at Large: The Amazons
We got on the boat and chugged back to the mouth of the Trombetas, and there we were caught in a fantastic storm, with gale-force winds and high waves that forced us to tie up to a tree for an hour.
Then we went up the Trombetas about twenty miles, and were dropped off at the city of Oriximina in time for a late supper.
On the right bank of the Trombetas is a big lake, the Lago de Sapucua, whose shores were thickly populated in late prehistoric times.
www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/brazil/amazons3.html   (2421 words)

  
 Jennifer Metz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So, Santarém, Óbidos and Alenquer mobilized 100+ men who advance up the Trombetas as far as Curuá River and destroy Quilombos there.
1888 - The expeditions against Quilomos of the Trombetas and Curuá Rivers continued until slavery was abolished on 13 May 1888.
*details borrowed from an article by Lúcia M. de Andrade called "The Quilombos of the Trombetas River Basin: Brief History." The paper was conceived to provide information for the work of the Association of Remaining Descendants of Quilombola Communities of the Municipality of Oriximiná (ARQMO).
www.jenmetz.com /quilombo.html   (375 words)

  
 Planet Ark
PORTO TROMBETAS, Brazil - The people of Porto Trombetas, a mining town tucked deep into the far reaches of the Amazon, want a critical world to know they are committed to keeping their nook of the rain forest green.
Porto Trombetas and the mine are inspected twice yearly, and a full audit will be carried out every three years.
The town is on the Trombetas River, a northern Amazon tributary that is accessible only by air or marathon river trip.
www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=21118   (808 words)

  
 EKD: Protestant Church in Germany - - The Amazon rain forest and aluminium
We were able to see the bauxite quarry, the deforestation and the reafforestation, also the attempts by MRN to recultivate the clearing ponds, filled with red sludge.
The food for Porto Trombetas, the MRN's company town is flown in from Sao Paulo.
We are prepared to talk with the river inhabitants, and to consider the social consequences of the bauxite-mine Rio Trombetas".
www.ekd.de /bulletin/bulletin_2201.html   (1052 words)

  
 Parú: A Floodplain Village
This is an aerial photograph of an area in the Lower Middle Amazon.
Moving from left to right is the Amazon river and from top left down to mid is the Trombetas river.
The whole area is effectively a triangle, with rivers acting as the boundaries, on the south side the Amazon and on either side the Trombetas and Cachoerri rivers.
les.man.ac.uk /multimedia/paru01.htm   (798 words)

  
 Trombetas Weather Guide cheap holidays and travel deals, flights and hotels to book online
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is less dense - in the low Trombetas region and in the Marajo archipelago.
It was in trombetas, I guess, where I saw my first (and last) pink dolphins.
www.worldbookers.co.uk /Trombetas-Weather-Guide.html   (214 words)

  
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The ship arrived in Porto Trombetas, Para state, on 10 Apr 2003, & was visited by tax & shipping officials on 11 Apr 2003, at which time the victim was found dead in his cabin.
A team from Anvisa has been in Porto Trombetas since 25 Apr 2003, at the request of the Federal Police, consulting with local port & shipping authorities and the mining company new routines for inspecting foreign vessels.
Mr Castro said police were 90% sure that Ibrahim was the victim of anthrax, and that a second test confirming their suspicions should be ready on Tuesday.
www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:111406210647337873::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,21447   (1871 words)

  
 Planet Ark : Brazil bauxite miner says helping restore Amazon
Trombetas provided some 10.3 million tonnes of the 13.2 million tonnes mined in Brazil in 2001.
However, International Aluminum Institute figures show that less than 15 percent of world bauxite is mined in rain forests and amounts to one billionth of the total 1.4 billion ha of global rain forest.
Pereira added that the company last December was awarded the International Standards Organization certificate ISO -14.001 which he said uniquely included the town of Porto Trombetas as well as the mining operation.
www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/15910/story.htm   (642 words)

  
 SIT Study Abroad - Brazil: Amazonian Ecology and Natural Resource Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Students go to a community of small agricultural producers displaced by the Albras project, which is engaged in political activity to reclaim what they lost and in social projects to improve their precarious situation.
Rio Trombetas: At Porto Trombetas, Mineração Rio do Norte conducts mining operations on one of the largest aluminum bauxite deposits in the world (10% of total known deposits).
Further down the Trombetas River, in a small town called Oriximiná, students have a lecture with ARQMO, an Association of Quilombola Communities (descendents of run-away slaves).
www.sit.edu /studyabroad/latinamerica/brazileco_excursions.html   (1187 words)

  
 NESTING BIOLOGY OF BLACK SKIMMERS, LARGE-BILLED TERNS, AND YELLOW-BILLED TERNS IN AMAZONIAN BRAZIL
Therefore sandbars, such as those of the Trombetas River present an ideal opportunity for gathering data not only on general breeding biology, but also on how nest sites are segregated spatially among these three species.
The Trombetas River is a fl- water river flowing south into the Amazon and the seasonal variation in depth is about 10 meters (C. Alho and L. P/tdua, pers.
Nests of Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) (n = 37), Large-billed Terns (Phaetusa simplex) (n = 121), and Yellow-billed Terns (Sterna superciliaris) (n = 16) on an exposed sandbar in the Trombetas River, Brazil, were monitored during incubation and hatching in 1982.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v060n02/p0216-p0223.html   (3869 words)

  
 CPD: South America, Site SA4, Transverse Dry Belt, Brazil
A field survey from Trombetas to Jari along the Palaeozoic strip could determine whether the Trombetas area is a restricted centre of diversity or if such higher diversity occurs along the strip.
The region of the Transverse Dry Belt is the natural habitat of many plants producing spices and drugs that were exploited by the Portuguese from the second half of the 17th century to the first half of the 18th century.
The area of Pôrto Trombetas has a large deposit of bauxite that is being exploited by the company Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), which deforests 100-120 ha yearly; MRN makes efforts to regenerate forest on the stripped sites.
www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa4.htm   (3366 words)

  
 Glen Switkes, Traditional Black Amazon Community Fights for Recognition of Land Rights
Nearly 200 years ago, their ancestors fled from cattle ranches and cacao plantations in the Amazon and climbed the Trombetas River.
We are writing in support of the petition of the quilombo community of Boa Vista, Para for title to their traditional lands on the Trombetas River.
We understand that such titling would be in agreement with Article 68 of the Brazilian Constitution, and could guarantee the survival of this community and dozens of other quilombos throughout Brazil.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/42/002.html   (414 words)

  
 Trombetas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Trombetas is the first river of importance we meet on the northern side as we ascend the (A major South American river; flows into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)) Amazon River.
Its confluence with this is just above the town of (Click link for more info and facts about Obidos) Obidos.
The river is navigable for 135 miles above its mouth.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trombetas.htm   (100 words)

  
 QUMRAN, CUMORAH E A FESTA DAS TROMBETAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tocai a trombeta na lua nova ao tempo apontado da nossa solenidade.
Hoje a Festa das Trombetas é muitas vezes celebrada em dois dias devido a dificuldade de determinar quando exatamente vai ocorrer a lua nova.
Antes da destruição do Templo em 70 A.D. a trombeta era tocada regularmente, mas quando o Sinédrio foi abolido no tempo em que o Templo foi destruído, juntamente com o assento de julgamento, o sopro da trombeta foi abandonado.
www.bibliamormon.com /Qumran_Cumorah.htm   (1182 words)

  
 ARCA. Apocalipse Chapter 8:1-13.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
8:7 E o primeiro anjo tocou a trombeta, e houve saraiva e fogo misturado com sangue, e foram lançados na terra, que foi queimada na sua terça parte; queimou-se a terça parte das árvores, e toda a erva verde foi queimada.
8:10 E o terceiro anjo tocou a trombeta, e caiu do céu uma grande estrela, ardendo como uma tocha, e caiu sobre a terça parte dos rios e sobre as fontes das águas.
8:12 E o quarto anjo tocou a trombeta, e foi ferida a terça parte do sol, e a terça parte da lua, e a terça parte das estrelas, para que a terça parte deles se escurecesse, e a terça parte do dia não brilhasse, e semelhantemente a noite.
www.faithofgod.net /Novo/66_008.htm   (397 words)

  
 As sete trombetas de audiodicas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trombeta um: Vou listar abaixo alguns macetes que se propagam pelo mundo audiófilo como capazes de melhorar o som musical reproduzido eletronicamente.
Trombeta três: A psicanálise ensina que, em geral, “ouvimos aquilo que desejamos ouvir, ou necessitamos ouvir”.
Trombeta seis: Em função tão-só do agrado musical aos ouvidos, que mídia deu ou dá a você mais prazer em ouvir música,
www.audiodicas.com.br /anjo_trombeteiro/as_sete_trombetas.htm   (1094 words)

  
 Cheap Trombetas Airfares | Book an airfare to Trombetas |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Apocaliptico - O Site Revelador - Trombetas humanas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Essas trombetas tinham a função de ajuntar o povo ou para uma celebração ou para uma convocação para a guerra.
É interessante observar que a palavra trombeta, também pode ser definida como shophar.
Lendo a passagem, percebemos a ordem de Deus, quando disse a Moisés para fazer duas trombetas de prata, mas com um propósito definido.
www.apocaliptico.com.br /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=128   (962 words)

  
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