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CHASING THE POROROCA

“IF YOU ASK ME TO DESCRIBE THE POROROCA IN ONE WORD, YOU WOULD BE GIVING ME A VERY HARD TASK… BUT I WOULD GO WITH THE WORD 'VOLATILE'.”

In Brazil, when you are a child in geography class, you may learn about a peculiar phenomenon that happens in the Amazon Forest, called Pororoca…

Every full and new moon, instead of the regular change in the river flow, the high tide comes in the form of a very strong and large wave that rushes down rivers in that

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