The Madeira River is a major waterway in South America, approximately 3,250 km (2,020) miles long The Madeira is the biggest tributary of the Amazon. A map from Emanuel Bowen in 1747, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, refers to the Madeira by the pre-colonial, indigenous name Cuyari:
"The River of Cuyari, called by the Portuguese Madeira or the Wood River, is formed by two great rivers, which join near its mouth. It was by this River, that the Nation of Topinambes passed into the River Amazon."
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Famous quotes containing the words madeira and/or river:
“In this world of overrated pleasures,
Of underrated treasures.”
—Paul Madeira (b. 1904)
“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)