Branco, Rio, a river of Northern Brazil, which rises in the Parima Mountains, on the very borders of Venezuela; and after a southerly course of about 400 miles, it joins the Rio Negro, of which it is the principal tributary, on its way to the Amazon.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 398
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