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  1. An Amazonian town in the state of Para, NE
  2. Brazil, situated at the junction of the
  3. Trans-Amazonian Highway with the Xingu river,
  4. 700 km/ 400 mi SW of Belem. In 1989 a
  5. protest by Brazilian Indians and
  6. environmentalists against the biulding of six
  7. dams, focused world attention on the
  8. devastation of the Amazon rainforest.
  9.