Definition of Sete quedas

1. Noun. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sete Quedas

Sesamum indicum
Sesbania exaltata
Sesbania grandiflora
Seseli
Sesotho
Sessions
Sessrúmnir
Set
Setaria cervi
Setaria glauca
Setaria italica
Setaria italica rubrofructa
Setaria italica stramineofructa
Setaria viridis
Sete Quedas
Seth
Seth Thomas
Setophaga
Setophaga ruticilla
Setos
Setswana
Setubal
Seurat
Seussian
Sevan
Sevan trout
Sevastopol
Seven Hills of Rome
Seven Sages

Literary usage of Sete quedas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1836)
"It then follows the course of that riv. up to the cataract, called the Sete Quedas (24° 30' S. lat.), and hence it runs along the high ground which ..."

2. Industrial and Commercial South America by Annie Smith Peck (1922)
"From here to the Guaira or sete quedas Falls, 400 miles, there is unobstructed navigation. At this point the river forms a lake 4j£ miles long and 2j^ wide ..."

3. The Rio de la Plata by Henry Honeychurch Gorringe (1875)
"From the sete quedas to the Iguacu it forms the boundary between the Brazilian province of ... Above the sete quedas the river-bed has a width of 6 miles, ..."

4. The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia by Brazil (1876)
"... from a short distance above the confluence of the Iguassu, to the river Plate; but it is interrupted by the falls of sete quedas or Guayra cataract, ..."

5. Brazil in 1912 by J. C. Oakenfull (1913)
"At the sete quedas falls, or cataracts, it opens out into a lake 4^ miles long by i\ miles wide, and after rushing through a profound gorge, falls some 310 ..."

6. Latin-American Year Book for Investors and Merchants for 1918- (1919)
"There are several other rivers which empty themselves into the Parana. At the sete quedas falls, or cataracts, it opens out into a lake 4^2 miles long by ..."

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