Marajó

Maraj? is an inhabited island, located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. With a land area of 40,100 km² (15,500 sq mi, see list of islands by size), it is the largest island to be surrounded by both fresh and salt water (its north-east coastline faces the Atlantic ocean). The city of Bel?m lies to the south, across the southern fork (called also the Par? River) of the river's mouth.

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In the 1918–1919 outbreak of the Spanish influenza, Maraj? is the only major populated area to not have documented any cases of the illness.

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Island: An island or isle is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on an atoll an islet, since an atoll is a type of islan...

Amazon River: The Amazon River (occasionally River Amazon; Spanish: R?o Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) of South America is one of the two longest rivers on Earth, the other being the Nile in Africa. The Amazon has by far the greatest total flow of any river, carrying more than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yang...

Brazil: The Federative Republic of Brazil (Rep?blica Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and the fifth largest in the world. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia,...