Doce River
The Doce River is a river in southeast Brazil with a length of 853 kilometres. The river basin is economically important. In 2015, the collapse of a dam released highly contaminated water from mining into the river, causing an ecological disaster.
- Stream
- …is also known as “Rio Doce”
- Description: river in Minas Gerais & Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Location
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Latitude
-19.63907° or 19° 38′ 21″ south
Longitude
-39.81699° or 39° 49′ 1″ west
Open location code
59G2956M+96
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Doce River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر دوسي”
- Asturian: “Ríu Doce”
- Azerbaijani: “Riu-Dosi”
- Belarusian: “Досі”
- Belarusian: “Рыу-Досі”
- Breton: “Rio Doce”
- Catalan: “Doce”
- Cebuano: “Rio Doce”
- Chinese: “多希河”
- Chinese: “多西河”
- Chuvash: “Риу-Доси”
- Czech: “Doce”
- Dutch: “Doce”
- Esperanto: “Dolĉa Rivero”
- French: “Rio Doce”
- German: “Doce”
- German: “Rio Doce”
- Icelandic: “Rio Doce”
- Ido: “Fluvio Doce”
- Irish: “Rio Doce”
- Italian: “Rio Doce”
- Japanese: “ドーセ川”
- Japanese: “ドセ谷”
- Lithuanian: “Dosė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Doce”
- Norwegian: “Doce”
- Polish: “Doce”
- Polish: “Rio Doce”
- Portuguese: “Doce”
- Portuguese: “Rio Doce”
- Russian: “Риу-Доси”
- Slovenian: “Doce”
- Slovenian: “reka Doce”
- Slovenian: “Rio Doce”
- Spanish: “Río Doce”
- Swedish: “Rio Doce”
- Turkish: “Rio Doce”
- Ukrainian: “Ріо-Досі”
- Uzbek: “Doce daryosi”
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