| Share

pororoca

pororoca, tidal bore: see Amazon, river, Brazil; bore.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

More on pororoca from Infoplease:

bore - bore bore, inrush of water that advances upstream with a wavelike front, caused by the progress of ...
Amazon, river, Peru and Brazil: Course - Course Geologically, the Amazon basin is a sediment-filled structural depression between ...
Encyclopedia: Latin American and Caribbean Physical Geography - Encyclopeadia articles concerning Latin American and Caribbean Physical Geography.

See more Encyclopedia articles on: Latin American and Caribbean Physical Geography

Premium Partner Content

HighBeam Research

Related content from HighBeam Research on: pororoca

Jungle Surfing (Americas Quarterly)

Beyond the sea: how to surf from the Turnagain Arm to the Silver Dragon.(mf: outdoors) (Men's Fitness)

Awesome in the Amazon: this guy's surfing the brown wave ... and not just 'cause he drank the water.(Insanity!)(Brief Article) (Men's Fitness)

Region: Venezuela's Mercosur Membership Delayed (NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs)

New Handbook Launched by Visa. (Travel Business Review (TBR))

That's Entertainment (Risk Management)

Additional search results provided by HighBeam Research, LLC. © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.

24 X 7

Private Tutor

	24 x 7 Tutor Availability
	Unlimited Online Tutoring
	1-on-1 Tutoring

Explore Solve Math Problems , Statistics Problems

Popular Areas

Infoplease Tools

The Family Education Network

About Infoplease,
Part of Family Education Network

© 2000–2013 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease