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Portuguese Rio Pará

channel of the Amazon delta and estuary of the Tocantins River. It passes to the south and east of Marajó Island, in northeastern Pará estado (state), northern Brazil. It carries a small part of the discharge of the Amazon River eastward and northward to the Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Maguarinho, and also receives the massive Tocantins River from the south. The river’s width varies from 5 to 40 miles (8 to 65 km), and its entire 200-mile (320-kilometre) length is navigable. Belém, the capital of Pará state, lies on the Pará River’s ... (100 of 129 words)

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