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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Brazil west-northwest of São Paulo. It is a major processing and shipping center.
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- proper noun State capital of
Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil ).
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One of those was a district known as Campo Grande, where officials estimated 2,000 homes had been destroyed and up to 150 people may have been buried.
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One of those was a district known as Campo Grande, where officials estimated 2,000 homes had been destroyed and up to 150 people may have been buried.
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My flight tomorrow leaves at 6am (FUN) and arrives in Campo Grande, which is in the Patanal down south, at noon.
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It has been great having 2 straight weeks of beachy days and we are now sporting some mean tans but today we flew inland to Campo Grande which is where we will do a Pantanal tour.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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"I have friends still lost in all of this mud," said Carlos Eurico, a resident of the city's Campo Grande neighborhood, as he motioned to a sea of destruction behind him.
'We Were Like Zombies,' Say Survivors Of Rains That Killed Hundreds AP 2011
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The floods tore out most of the steep cobblestone road leading to the Campo Grande neighborhood, creating a ravine about 16 feet (5 meters) deep and 65 feet (20 meters) wide.
'We Were Like Zombies,' Say Survivors Of Rains That Killed Hundreds AP 2011
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Simone dos Santos Pinto, a 36-year-old resident of the Campo Grande neighborhood who was hiking supplies up to her sick, 65-year-old father, said there was no help, and she could not understand why.
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In the remote Campo Grande neighborhood of Teresopolis, now accessible only by a perilous five-mile eight-kilometer hike through mud-slicked jungle, family members pulled the lifeless bodies of loved ones from the muck.
'We Were Like Zombies,' Say Survivors Of Rains That Killed Hundreds AP 2011
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At the base of the steep hills leading up to Carvalho's Campo Grande neighborhood, only a few firefighters and two federal policemen were seen — and they were not helping people carry supplies.
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The floods tore out most of the steep cobblestone road leading to the Campo Grande neighborhood, creating a ravine about 16 feet (5 meters) deep and 65 feet (20 meters) wide.
'We Were Like Zombies,' Say Survivors Of Rains That Killed Hundreds AP 2011
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