Roosevelt River
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The Roosevelt River (Rio Roosevelt, sometimes Rio Teodoro) is a Brazilian river. It begins in the state of Rondonia and winds for about 400 miles (640 km) until it joins the Aripuana River.
Formerly called Rio da Dúvida (“River of Doubt”), the river is named after Theodore Roosevelt, who travelled into the central region of Brazil during the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition of 1913. Roosevelt, with Brazil's most famous explorer Cândido Rondon, explored the "River of Doubt" which Rondon had discovered on a previous expedition. The goal was to determine if the river flowed into the Amazon River, which it did via the Aripuana River. Sections of the river have impassable rapids and waterfalls, which hindered the expedition.
