Tapajós
The Tapajós is a river in Brazil. It runs through the Amazon rainforest and is a major tributary of the Amazon River. When combined with the Juruena River, the Tapajós is approximately 2,080 km long.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Pará, Brazil
- Also known as: “Rio Tapajóz”, “Tapajos”, and “Tapajós River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santarém.
Santarém
Photo: Rômulo Ferreira, CC BY 2.0.
Santarém is a city on the southern bank of the Tapajós River, in northern Brazil. It's the second-largest city in Pará, and located just about midway between Manaus and Belém.
Tapajós
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Pará, North, Brazil, South America
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Satellite Map
Discover Tapajós from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Tapajós” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rio Tapajós”
- Arabic: “تاباجوس”
- Arabic: “نهر تاباجوس”
- Armenian: “Տապաժոս”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tapajós”
- Azerbaijani: “Tapajos çayı”
- Basque: “Tapajós”
- Belarusian: “Рака Тапажос”
- Belarusian: “Тапажос”
- Bulgarian: “Рио Тапажос”
- Bulgarian: “Тапажос”
- Catalan: “Río Tajajós”
- Catalan: “riu Tapajós”
- Catalan: “Riu Tapajós”
- Catalan: “Tapajós”
- Cebuano: “Rio Tapajos (suba sa Brasil)”
- Cebuano: “Rio Tapajós”
- Chinese: “塔帕若斯河”
- Chuvash: “Тапажос”
- Croatian: “Tapajós”
- Czech: “Tapajos”
- Czech: “Tapajós”
- Czech: “Tapájos”
- Dutch: “Tapajos”
- Dutch: “Tapajós”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تاباجوس”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Tapajós”
- Esperanto: “Tapajós”
- Esperanto: “Tapajozo”
- Estonian: “Tapajos”
- Estonian: “Tapajós”
- Estonian: “Tapajosi jõgi”
- Estonian: “Tapajósi jõgi”
- French: “Rio Tapajos”
- French: “rio Tapajós”
- French: “Rio Tapajós”
- French: “Topayos”
- German: “Rio Tapajos”
- German: “Rio Tapajós”
- Hebrew: “טפז’וס”
- Hebrew: “ריו טפז’וס”
- Hungarian: “Tapajós”
- Ido: “Tapajós”
- Interlingua: “Fluvio Tapajós”
- Irish: “Tapajós”
- Italian: “Tapajós”
- Japanese: “タパジョース川”
- Kirghiz: “Тапажос”
- Korean: “타파조스강”
- Latin: “Tapajós”
- Latvian: “Tapažosa”
- Lithuanian: “Tapažosas”
- Macedonian: “Тапажос”
- Malagasy: “Rio Tapajós”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tapajós”
- Norwegian: “Tapajós”
- Ossetian: “Тапажос”
- Persian: “تاپاژوس”
- Polish: “Tapajos”
- Polish: “Tapajós”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tapajós”
- Portuguese: “Río Tapajós”
- Russian: “Тапажос”
- Saterfriesisch: “Rio Tapajós”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tapajós”
- Spanish: “Rio Tapajos”
- Spanish: “Rio Tapajós”
- Spanish: “Río Tapajos”
- Spanish: “Río Tapajós”
- Spanish: “Tapajos”
- Spanish: “Tapajós”
- Spanish: “Tapajoz”
- Swedish: “Rio Tapajos (vattendrag i Brasilien)”
- Swedish: “Rio Tapajós”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำตาปาฌอส”
- Turkish: “Tapajós”
- Ukrainian: “Тапажос”
- Uzbek: “Tapajos”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tapajós”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Tapajos”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Tapajós”
- Vietnamese: “Tapajos”
- Vietnamese: “Tapajós”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹاپاجوس دریا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Santarem and Santarém–Maestro Wilson Fonseca Airport.
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