Tapajos, one of the greater affluents of the Amazon; its head-waters rise in the Serra Diamantina, in the S. of Matto-Grosso State; has a northward course of over 1000 m. before it joins the Amazon; is a broad and excellent waterway, and navigable in its lower course for 150 m.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Taormina * Tapley, Mark