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updated March 25, 2011
ANSA
SAO PAULO .- A great mystery surrounds the discovery of two giant vortex, approximately 400 km diameter, in the Atlantic Ocean, off the mouth of the Amazon.
These huge swirls most never before located on Earth, we suspect, may have significant influence on global climate changes of recent times.
vortices, detected at 200 km from Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, seem to be caused by the interaction of the North Brazil Current, which comes from the north, the South Equatorial Current, the south, the huge mouth of the Amazon River to the west.
"The vortices rotate clockwise. They move in the ocean like a gigantic album released in the air. The rotation happens at the speed of one meter per second, very fast in relation to ocean currents, and on the edges of the swirl is a wave of 40 centimeters, "said William Brazil Castelao, studying these phenomena with Bill Johns , University of Miami.
In short, there are two "hurricane" of the sea. Its origin stems possibly from the "curve" marked to the coast makes the height of the Brazilian state of Amapá and in front of Devil's Island, Isle of those deported to Cayenne, French Guyana, known by the book and film "Papillon."
But this geographic specificity is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon: the scholars, in fact, found also in the months in which the movement of currents and flow of the Amazon are almost nonexistent, the vortices remain immense.
"This suggests that there is a sort of independent mechanism in their formation," said a study published by the American Geophysical Union.
natural But this device remains a mystery. The river Amazon, through the two arms of the delta, has a huge amount of water in the Atlantic earthy. Satellite can see your mouth affects more than one thousand kilometers of sea browning northwest of Bethlehem.
The ocean in this area is much denser than elsewhere.
blog editor's note: When referenced to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana should take into account 159.500Km2 of land to the west of the Essequibo River known by the name of Guyana Essequibo or Zone Claim subject to the Geneva Agreement February 17, 1966.
Territories these on which the Venezuelan government on behalf of the Venezuelan nation reserves its rights over the territories of Guyana Essequibo in your letter of May 26, 1966 to recognize the new State of Guyana.
"... therefore, Venezuela recognized as territory of the new state, which lies east of the right bank of the Essequibo River and reiterated to the international community, which expressly reserves its rights of territorial sovereignty over the area located on the left bank of the said river, and consequently, the territory Essequibo in Guyana on which Venezuela expressly reserves its sovereign rights, limits on the east by the new State of Guyana, through the line of the Essequibo River, taking it from its source to its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean . .. "
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Manaus (Brazil), March 25 (EFE) .- The indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon today asked the international community support and announced that they will resort to force by the "threat" posed for territory and culture hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, which started construction this month in the jungle of Pará. Continue reading the printed article
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The plant will generate 11,233 megawatts at times of flood the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, flooding 516 square miles of forest, forcing off the land for some 50,000 people.
"The Brazilian government does not respect the human rights of indigenous people and their own laws. We ask the world to support our cause not disappear," he declared vehemently Sheyla indigenous leader in a press Juruna news conference in the Brazilian city of Manaus.
Work on the hydroelectric which began this March in the town of Altamira (Pará), will cause irreparable damage to the ecosystem and the living conditions of indigenous people and peasants living on the banks of the Xingu River, according to many NGOs.
The Environment Ministry has repeatedly denied the project's environmental impact, defined as one of the "most important" for the Brazilian electricity sector.
Juruna said, however, that the work is a "project delusion" that benefit only "small groups of capitalists" and called on the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, to develop alternative projects to the construction of the plant.
"Brazil needs development, but in a sustainable manner and respecting indigenous peoples," said indigenous leader, wearing the typical dress of their community during the Second Global Forum on Sustainability, held in Manaus, capital of Amazonas state.
Juruna denounced the "sham" of the Brazilian Government said that the dam will not affect the Amazonian communities and warned that indigenous people resort to "force" to defend their territories.
According to government estimates, the hydroelectric plant, which cost about U.S. $ 10,600 million (7,500 million euros), will be the third largest in the world behind the Three Gorges (China) and that of Itaipu, shared by Brazil and Paraguay.
In the struggle for "survival" of its territory, Juruna was now supported by film director James Cameron, who criticized Rousseff to go ahead with the project despite the fact that hydropower , he said, the work does not have popular support.
"These people have blood in Brazil and part of the country's culture," said award-winning filmmaker, who has embraced the cause of the Amazonian people and last year participated in protests against the construction of Belo Mt.
Cameron announced that the next five years shot many documentaries to show the challenges facing humanity and awareness of the need to promote sustainable development, in addition to reiterating that filmed the second part of the successful "Avatar."
"We prefer to have a foreigner to defend our community and our country that a government which destroys our people," said Juruna referring to Cameron, in a press conference attended by several "experts" Indians, regarded as the highest authority in those territories.
The Kayapo chief, another indigenous leader, warned that the work of Belo Monte "break" the natural rhythm of the fauna of the river Xingu and force the community to find another power supply to the eventual migration of the species that inhabit it.
"Everything will be destroyed. The government knows this because we have informed you, but do not want to hear because they only think of the money they gain from this project," said the chief Kayapo, who spoke in a language the Amazon jungle.
The chief confessed to being "full of rage" against those who support the construction of the dam and against those who do not respect the human rights of its people.
As a gesture of thanks to Cameron for their support to the indigenous cause, the chief director described the film as "Kaprinbtí" that the Kayapo tribal language meaning "strong man magical."
Lee Aday
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By Agencia EFE - 15 hours ago
Washington, March 25 (EFE) .- peoples Defenders voluntarily isolated indigenous reported today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the pressures these communities in the Amazon Region and the Gran Chaco.
Indians who have chosen to live isolated from the rest of society in Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador occupied territories rich in natural resources, goals of big business, so being forcibly displaced.
This was explained today Mike Berry, counsel for the International Indigenous Committee for the Protection of Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact in Amazonia, the Chaco and the Eastern Region of Paraguay (CIPIACI).
The Commission, an independent agency of the Organization of American States (OAS) today began its public hearings as part of its 141st session, which began last March 21 and runs until April 1.
The forced contact between peoples in voluntary isolation and other communities is seen as ethnocide only one of the six countries listed, Ecuador.
However, the situation of these peoples is similar in all these, where they are being harassed to leave their land, according to Berry reported.
The conflict intensified last ten years, when the exploitation of natural resources was that the areas where these communities live will become more accessible and less remote as they once were.
"States yield to the interests of large companies and allow the taking of lands of these Indians to enable them to exploit their natural resources like gas, oil and water" CIPIACI said President Jaime Corisepa.
When people in isolated villages in contact with people outside the community epidemics of diseases such as influenza, as they are very vulnerable to have remained isolated from society throughout their lives, reported Corisepa.
CIPIACI The hearing was subject, so that the space reserved for the representation of the State concerned was empty.
"We were going to a particular Government, but could have come to discuss the situation any of the six countries concerned. Here is their interest in these towns, "said President CIPIACI Efe after the hearing.
The Commission will consider introducing a specific article on indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation in the future declaration the rights of indigenous peoples, which is currently being drafted.
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