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 Oriximna. Carnival is amazing in Óbidos when the locals start celebrating in January. The town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Óbidos.
[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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