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Legal Amazon

The Legal Amazon is a large administrative region of Brazil covering the Amazon basin and adjacent areas, defined in modern Brazilian law. Accounts of the Brazilian Empire use the term for the vast northern territories that the nineteenth-century empire administered with minimal infrastructure. Their size and remoteness limited imperial control.

Legal Amazon
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Legal Amazon. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/legal-amazon
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