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unusual facts about Rondônia


Drymaeus branneri

The type locality of Drymaeus branneri is above Porto Velho along the Madeira-Mamoré railroad (= ca. 260 km South-West of Porto Velho), Rondônia, Brazil.


Ajax Futebol Clube

Ajax Futebol Clube, commonly known as Ajax, is a Brazilian football club based in Vilhena, Rondônia state.

Ariquemes Futebol Clube

Ariquemes Futebol Clube, commonly known as Ariquemes, is a Brazilian football club based in Ariquemes, Rondônia state.

Astrocaryum aculeatum

Astrocaryum aculeatum is found in and around the Amazon Basin, from Trinidad and Tobago in the north, through Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, the Brazilian states of Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and south through the Bolivian departments of Beni, Pando, Santa Cruz.

Clube Atlético Pimentense

Clube Atlético Pimentense, commonly known as Pimentense, is a Brazilian football club based in Pimenta Bueno, Rondônia state.

Cobalt-winged Parakeet

The range of the Cobalt-winged Parakeet is in the extreme western Amazon Basin in Brazil's states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia, part of the North Region; also from north to south, southernmost Venezuela, eastern Colombia-Ecuador-Peru, and northern and central Bolivia, and in Bolivia within the tributary rivers to the Madeira River flowing northeast to the Amazon River.

Dina Lévi-Strauss

In 1936-38 she undertook field research with her husband in Mato Grosso and Rondônia in the Amazon Rainforest, studying the cultures of the Guaycuru and Bororo Indian tribes.

Electricity sector in Brazil

The three largest projects studied, Jirau, Santo Antônio and Belo Monte, are already beyond the feasibility phase: In 2007, Ibama, the environmental agency, gave approval for the construction of two new dams, Jirau (3,300 MW) and Santo Antônio (3,150 MW), on the Madeira River in the state of Rondônia.

Esporte Clube Espigão

Esporte Clube Espigão, commonly known as Espigão, is a Brazilian football club based in Espigão d'Oeste, Rondônia state.

Grêmio Recreativo e Esportivo

Grêmio Recreativo e Esportivo, commonly known as Grêmio Recreativo, is a Brazilian football club based in Espigão d'Oeste, Rondônia state.

Guajará Esporte Clube

Guajará Esporte Clube, commonly known as Guajará, is a Brazilian football club based in Guajará-Mirim, Rondônia state.

Ji-Paraná Futebol Clube

Ji-Paraná Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Ji-Paraná is a Brazilian football club, from Ji-Paraná, Rondônia state.

Lábrea fever

Lábrea fever, also known as Lábrea's black fever and Lábrea hepatitis, is a lethal tropical viral infection discovered in the 1950s in the city of Lábrea, in the Brazilian Amazon basin, where it occurs mostly in the area south of the Amazon River, in the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia

Mamaindê language

Mamaindê, also known as Northern Nambikwara, is a Nambikwaran language spoken in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil, in the very north of the indigenous reserve, Terra Indígena Vale do Guaporé, between the Pardo and Cabixi Rivers.

Martyr of charity

Ezechiele Ramin, died in 1985 while defending the rights of the farmers and the Paiter people of the Rondônia area (Brazil).

Parides hahneli

It is endemic to Brazil in the states of Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Amazonas, and Pará, where it was placed on the list of endangered species in 2008.The butterfly was named to honour it's collector Paul Hahnel.

Purubora language

Specifically it is spoken in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in Costa Marques and around the headwaters of the Rio São Miguel tributary of the right bank of the Guaporé.

Rolim de Moura Esporte Clube

Rolim de Moura Esporte Clube, commonly known as Rolim de Moura, is a Brazilian football club based in Rolim de Moura, Rondônia state.

Sociedade Esportiva Ariquemes

Sociedade Esportiva Ariquemes, commonly known as Ariquemes, was a Brazilian football club based in Ariquemes, Rondônia state.

Sociedade Esportiva União Cacoalense

Sociedade Esportiva União Cacoalense, commonly known as União Cacoalense, is a Brazilian football club based in Cacoal, Rondônia state.

States of Brazil

In 1943, with the entrance of Brazil into the Second World War, the Vargas regime detached seven strategic territories from the border of the country in order to administer them directly: Amapá, Rio Branco, Acre, Guaporé, Ponta Porã, Iguaçu and the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha.

Vilhena Esporte Clube

Vilhena Esporte Clube, commonly known as Vilhena, is a Brazilian football club based in Vilhena, Rondônia state.

White-eared titi

The species has a range that extends east from the Manique River in Beni Department, Bolivia to southern Rondônia in Brazil.


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