Óbidos, Brazil
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- There is also a town named Óbidos in Portugal. See Óbidos, Portugal.
Óbidos is a town in Pará, Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. Its an old town located between Santarem and Oriximiná. Carnival is a display of apostasy in Óbidos when the locals start celebrating in January. The town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Óbidos. The town was named after Óbidos, Portugal.
[edit] In popular culture
Amazon.com named a previous page rendering engine Obidos after this city.
[edit] Further reading
- Harris, Mark. Life on the Amazon The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village. A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0197262392
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