Topic - Guajara-Mirim

Guajará-Mirim is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. It is located at an altitude of 128 meters. Its population was 46,556 (2020) and its area is 24,856 km². - Source: Wikipedia

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An Indigenous Wari' boy swims in the Komi Memem River, named Laje in non-Indigenous maps, at Wari' community in Guajara-Mirim, Rondonia state, Brazil, Thursday, July 13, 2023. The Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim recently approved a law that designates the river "as a living entity and subject to rights." (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

An Indigenous leader has inspired an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river

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