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Definition of Madeira River

1. Noun. A Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Madeira River

Literary usage of Madeira River

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Since then Bolivia's outlet to the Amazon is restricted to the Madeira river, the navigation of which is interrupted by a series of falls before Bolivian ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"... and that nearly the entire waters which now unite to form the Madeira river, the main affluent of the Amazon, once flowed southward into a Pampean sea, ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"It was long thought to be a tributary of the Puras, until the brave but ill-fated Maldonado demonstrated that it belonged to the Madeira river system. ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The mean flow of the Madeira River, at the moment of receiving its united Bolivian tributaries, is, according to Keller, 8,C54 cubic metres per second, ..."

5. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"These are fierce and indomitable and hostile people, like the Araras of the Madeira River ... Madeira River ..."

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