Caviana
Sign in to saveCaviana (Portuguese: Ilha Caviana, formerly in Aruã language: Uyruma) is a coastal island in the Brazilian state Pará. The island is part of the Amazon Delta. In the 17th and 18th Century it was the stronghold of the Aruã people. From the island a tidal bore called the pororoca can be observed. Between 1845 and 1850, a strong pororoca split the island into two parts, called Inner and Outer Caviana.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Caviana
- Islands.image_name
- Amazon delta islands.svg
- Islands.image_caption
- Inner and Outer Caviana on a WorldWind satellite image from 1990
- Islands.map
- Brazil
- Islands.location
- Pará State, Brazil
- Islands.archipelago
- Marajó Archipelago
- Islands.area_km2
- 2944
- Islands.length_km
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- Islands.width_km
- 45 <!--
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- Islands.country
- Brazil
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- State
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Pará
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Municipality
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Chaves
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Location
- Geology
- Nature
- Archeology
- History
- Population
- References
Caviana (Portuguese: Ilha Caviana, formerly in Aruã language: Uyruma) is a coastal island in the Brazilian state Pará. The island is part of the Amazon Delta. In the 17th and 18th Century it was the stronghold of the Aruã people. From the island a tidal bore called the pororoca can be observed. Between 1845 and 1850, a strong pororoca split the island into two parts, called Inner and Outer Caviana.
==Location== Administratively, Caviana is part of the municipality Chaves in the Brazilian state Pará. The Equator runs through Outer Caviana, as does the 50th meridian west. It is the third-largest island in the Amazon Delta, after Marajó and Ilha Grande de Gurupá.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caviana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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