Lexicographical Neighbors of Igarape
Literary usage of Igarape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"On a slightly rising ground a little beyond the igarape were the ruins of a
cottage, half of the walls and roof of which had fallen, and had got so ..."
2. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1851)
"We crossed the igarape, and then attempted to pierce the mato; but the track by
which we entered the latter ceased after we had followed it for a time, ..."
3. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"A Parana, in Amazonian parlance, is a narrow arm or branch of a river which comes
back into it again; an igarape is a blind tributary, pond, pool, or lake. ..."
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