The Amazon rubber cycle or boom (Portuguese: Ciclo da borracha, Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsiklu da buˈʁaʃɐ]; Spanish: Fiebre del caucho, pronounced [ˈfjeβɾe...
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Munduruku were pacified and subjugated by the Brazilians. During the Amazon rubber boom it is estimated that diseases brought by immigrants, such as typhus...
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The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse...
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Peruvian Amazonia (redirect from Peruvian Amazon Basin)
gathering of rubber during the Amazon rubber boom. Over the last decades illegal logging has become a serious problem in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2012 the...
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Amazônia Legal (redirect from Legal amazon)
Brazil's Legal Amazon (abbreviation BLA), in portuguese Amazônia Legal (Portuguese pronunciation: [amaˈzonjɐ leˈɡaw]), is the largest socio-geographic...
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extends south to the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers. The Amazon region is divided up into distinct subregions: Amazon foothills: bordering the East Andes...
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genocide. April 24 – Amazon rubber cycle: The Government of Colombia issues a formal apology to the indigenous communities of the Amazon basin for allowing...
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This is a list of plants found in the wild in Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil. The estimates from useful plants suggested that there are 800 plant...
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those who worked to make Acre a state of Brazil. Acre conspiracy Amazon rubber cycle List of rivers of Acre List of municipalities in Acre List of governors...
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such as, once belonging to Peru-Bolivian Confederation, the First Amazon rubber cycle and Acre Time Zone, sociologically, is considered a homogenous region...
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the abolition of slavery. Brazilian cacao cycle Brazilian sugar cycle Brazilian coffee cycle Amazon rubber cycle Brazilian Gold Rush "As Riquezas do Brasil...
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The Amazon biome (Portuguese: Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of...
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The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia...
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Brazilian city of Belém, in the state of Pará. It was built during the Amazon rubber cycle. Construction began on May 1, 1910, and was completed on May 21,...
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Flying river (category Amazon basin)
large quantities of water vapor transported in the atmosphere from the Amazon Basin to other parts of South America. The forest trees release water vapor...
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Brazilian northeastern migration (section Amazon)
First Rubber Cycle, the northeasterners migrated to the Amazon region, a fact that is repeated during the World War II, with the Second Rubber Cycle. During...
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Deforestation by continent (section Amazon Rainforest)
on Earth, with around 12 million km2 of boreal forest, larger than the Amazon rainforest. Russia's forests contain 55% of the world's conifers and represent...
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Forest island (category Amazon biome)
defended. Darrell Posey, among the Gorotire Kayaps Indians of the Brazilian Amazon, described wilful, astute engineering of the forest. Defecations along circulation...
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An immense number of bird species live in the Amazon rainforest and river basin (an area which is nominally home to one out of every ten known species...
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have been designed for visitors with reduced mobility as part of France's "Amazon for All" program. Other hiking and tourist opportunities exist including...
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Ayahuasca (category Indigenous culture of the Amazon)
these mestizos in the processes of colonial transformation. The Amazon rubber cycles (1879–1912 and 1945–1945) sped up these transformations, due to slavery...
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on the port was completed at the end of the 1910s. Port of Manaus Amazon rubber cycle "Manaus - AM - PAC". IPHAN. Retrieved 2023-09-14. Azevedo, Rodolfo...
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Julio César Arana (category Rubber barons)
as slavery, torture and genocide. A major figure in the rubber industry in the upper Amazon basin, he is probably best known in the English-speaking...
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Aristocratic Republic (Peru) (section The rubber boom)
Leguía began his 11-year presidency. National Reconstruction (Peru) Amazon rubber cycle Centralism (Peru) Barrenechea, Melissa (2019-04-21). "Perú bate su...
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photographs that recount its origins. Guajará Bay History of Belém Amazon rubber cycle Ver-o-Peso Complex Under the terms of the contract, the port would...
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trees native to the Amazon include Brazil nut, rubber tree and Assai palm. More than 1,400 species of mammals are found in the Amazon, the majority of which...
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Iquitos (category Populated places on the Amazon)
Amazon rubber boom, the city became the center of export of rubber production from the Amazon Basin and was the headquarters of the Peruvian Amazon Company...
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Cameli (PP) is the governor of the state, having been re-elected. Amazon rubber cycle Sertanismo was an activity, that began during the 17th century in...
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Nicolás Suárez Callaú (category Rubber barons)
Riberalta and then delivered to Porto Velho. Carlos Fitzcarrald Amazon rubber cycle Fifer 1970, p. 124-125. Fifer 1970, p. 136. Fifer 1970, p. 122-126...
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simultaneously with the rubber boom, which brought wealth to the Amazon region. But while Brazil was the largest and almost exclusive producer of rubber, cacao was...
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