Tapajos, a navigable river of Brazil, and an affluent of the Amazon, is formed by the confluence of the Arinos and the Jurnena, both of which rise in the south of Matto Grosso state. After a northward course of 900 miles, the Tapajos falls into the Amazon, above the town of Santarem. Steamers run 150 miles to the lowest of several waterfalls. A short portage separates the upper waters of the Tapajos from those of the Paraguay.
Tapajos
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 62
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