Tocantins River
The Tocantins River is a river in Brazil, the central fluvial artery of the country. In the Tupi language, its name means "toucan's beak". It runs from south to north for about 2,450 km.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Brazil
- Also known as: “Rio Tocantins” and “Tocantins”
Tocantins River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Igarapé-Miri, Pará, North, Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tocantins River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rio Tocantins”
- Arabic: “نهر توكانتين”
- Arabic: “نهر توكانتينز”
- Armenian: “Տոկանտինս”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tocantins”
- Azerbaijani: “Tokantins çayı”
- Bashkir: “Токантинс”
- Basque: “Tocantins ibaia”
- Basque: “Tocantins”
- Belarusian: “Рака Такантынс”
- Belarusian: “Такантынс”
- Bhojpuri: “टोकांटिन्स नदी”
- Bosnian: “Tocantins”
- Breton: “Tocantins (stêr)”
- Breton: “Tocantins”
- Bulgarian: “Токантинс”
- Catalan: “Río Tocantins”
- Catalan: “riu Tocantins”
- Catalan: “Riu Tocantins”
- Cebuano: “Rio Tocantins”
- Chinese: “多干定河”
- Chinese: “托坎廷斯河”
- Chuvash: “Токантинс”
- Croatian: “Tocantins”
- Czech: “Tocantins”
- Dutch: “Tocantins”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر توكانتين”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Tokantinso”
- Esperanto: “Tocantins”
- Estonian: “Tocantins”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tocantins Naddi”
- Finnish: “Tocantins”
- French: “rio Tocantins”
- French: “Rio Tocantins”
- Galician: “Río Tocantins”
- Georgian: “ტოკანტინსი”
- German: “Rio Tocantins”
- German: “Tokantins”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Τοκαντσίνς”
- Guarani: “Ysyry Tukãtĩ”
- Hebrew: “טוקנטינס”
- Hindi: “टोकांटिंस नदी”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Tocantins”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tocantins”
- Italian: “Rio Tocantins”
- Italian: “Tocantins”
- Japanese: “トカンチンス川”
- Kazakh: “Токантинс (өзен)”
- Kazakh: “Токантинс”
- Korean: “토칸칭스강”
- Korean: “토칸티스 강”
- Latin: “Flumen Tocantins”
- Latvian: “Tokantinsa”
- Lithuanian: “Tokantinsas”
- Lombard: “Tocantins”
- Malagasy: “Rio Tocantins”
- Mingrelian: “ტოკანტინსი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ტოკანტინსი”
- Northern Frisian: “Rio Tocantins”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Tocantins”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tocantins”
- Norwegian: “Tocantins”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Tocantins”
- Ossetian: “Токантинс (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Токантинс”
- Persian: “توکانتینس”
- Persian: “رود توکانتینس”
- Polish: “Tocantins”
- Portuguese: “Rio Bico de Papagaio”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tocantins”
- Portuguese: “Tocantins”
- Russian: “Токантинс”
- Saterfriesisch: “Rio Tocantins”
- Scots: “Tocantins River”
- Serbian: “Rio Tocantins”
- Serbian: “Tokantins”
- Serbian: “Токантинс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tocantins”
- Slovenian: “Tokantins”
- South Azerbaijani: “توکانتینس چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Tocantins”
- Spanish: “Río Tocantins”
- Spanish: “Tocantins”
- Swahili: “Mto Tocantins”
- Swedish: “Rio Tocantins”
- Swedish: “Tocantins”
- Tamil: “டோகாண்டின்ஸ் ஆறு”
- Tamil: “தொக்கந்தின்சு ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Tocantins Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Токантінс”
- Uzbek: “Tokantins”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tocantins”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Tocantins”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Tocantins”
- Welsh: “Afon Tocantins”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹوکینٹنز دریا”
- Wu Chinese: “托坎廷斯河”
- Yue Chinese: “多干定河”
- “टोकांटिन्स नदी”
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