- Madeira River
- nouna Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River• Syn: ↑Madeira• Instance Hypernyms: ↑river• Part Holonyms: ↑Brazil, ↑Federative Republic of Brazil, ↑Brasil
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Madeira River — River, western Brazil. A major tributary of the Amazon River, it is formed by the junction of the Mamoré and Beni rivers in Bolivia and flows north along the border between Bolivia and Brazil. It meanders northeast in Brazil to join the Amazon… … Universalium
Madeira River — The Madeira River is a major waterway in South America, approximately 3,380 km (2,100 miles) long. Madeira is the longest tributary of Amazon.The mean inter annual precipitations on the great basins vary from 750 to 3000 mm, the entire upper… … Wikipedia
MADEIRA RIVER — (i. e. river of the wood), formed by the junction of the Mamoré and Beni on the borders of Bolivia and Brazil, flows 900 m. NE., and joins the Amazon, as an affluent its longest and largest, and forms a magnificent navigable waterway … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Madeira (disambiguation) — Madeira (the Portuguese word for wood) is the name of a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, an autonomous region of Portugal and a popular holiday destination. It is also the name of the largest of the islands.It may also refer to:;Other… … Wikipedia
River Tyrannulet — Taxobox name = River Tyrannulet status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Passeriformes familia = Tyrannidae genus = Serpophaga species = S. hypoleuca binomial = Serpophaga hypoleuca binomial… … Wikipedia
river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… … Universalium
Madeira — mÉ™ dɪrÉ™ / dɪər n. group of eight Portuguese islands northwest of Africa; main island in this group; white or amber wine manufactured on the island of Madeira; river in western Brazil … English contemporary dictionary
Madeira — Madeira1 [mə dir′ə] n. any of several fortified wines, ranging from pale to amber and dry to sweet, made chiefly on Madeira Madeira2 [mə dir′ə] 1. group of Portuguese islands in the Atlantic, off the W coast of Morocco: 310 sq mi (803 sq km); pop … English World dictionary
Mamoré River — River, north central Bolivia. It rises in the Andes Mountains and in its upper course is sometimes known as Río Grande. It flows north to the Brazilian border, where it is joined by the Guaporé River; it forms the border of Bolivia and Brazil as… … Universalium
Beni River — River, Bolivia. Rising in the eastern cordillera of the Andes Mountains, it flows north and unites with the Mamoré River to form the Madeira River at Villa Bella. Near its mouth it receives the Madre de Dios River. It is 994 mi (1,599 km) long. * … Universalium
