Pororoca

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Inland tidal wave, reaches the upper parts of river delta, especially the Amazon river delta near Belém, Brazil. The wave has become popular with surfers. Since 1999, rhere is an annual championship in São Domingos do Capim (on the adjacent Guamá River). Urban Dictionary

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_ "pororoca," _ that species of eddy which for three days in the height of the syzygies raises the waters of the Amazon, and turns them back at the rate of seventeen kilometers per hour. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

But it is not so with the “pororoca,” that species of eddy which for three days in the height of the syzygies raises the waters of the ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Amazon River also has its Bore; the Indians, trying to imitate the sound of the roaring water, call it "pororoca." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"And whose waters the ocean does not pond back without raising in a strife which is phenomenal, a tide-race, or _'pororoca, '_ to which the ebbs, the bores, and the eddies of other rivers are but tiny ripples fanned up by the breeze." ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

Surfing the [Pororoca] is especially dangerous, as the water contains a significant amount of [debris] from the shores of the river. In the Orinoco [Delta], [pororoca] is known as macareo, which is also the name of one of the branches. ❋ Jerrycone (2011)

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