The Ganhoão River () is a river of

Marajó Marajó () is a large coastal island in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is the main and largest of the islands in the Marajó Archipelago. Marajó Island is separated from the mainland by Marajó Bay, Pará River, smaller rivers (especially M ...

, which itself is an island in the mouth of the

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. It is located in the state

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

in northern

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. Its source is in the swamp areas called ''

mondongos The mondongos are low-lying swamp fields in the north of the island Marajó in the Brazilian state Pará. They are flooded during the wet season, which occurs between January and May. The mondongos occur in the transition zone between the tropical ...

'' that are normally flooded during the wet season. It has an unobstructed entrance from the

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but due to its sinuosity, it can only be navigated by small boats. There is a small island near its mouth that is also called Ganhoão. The river is located in the municipality Chaves. The municipality maintains a register office on its bank.

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takes place on the river. Some communities near the river are Alto Ganhoão, Pompé, Redenção, Rio Jambu, Rio Seco, Vila Nazaré and Vila São Pedro. During the feast of

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, people go from house to house collecting gifts for the patron saint. The area used to be inhabited by the Aruã, some of whom had fled from the island

Caviana Caviana (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Ilha Caviana'', formerly in Aruã language: ''Uyruma'') is a coastal island in the Brazilian state Pará. The island is part of the Amazon Delta. In the 17th and 18th Century it was the stronghold of the ...

. They had a cemetery on a left tributary stream called Igarapé Bacabal. In 1702, the Portuguese moved a group of Aruã to the Urubu River in present-day state Amazonas.

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