How a shape-changing island in the Amazon became the center of a decades-long border dispute

Santa Rosa is an island in the Amazon River. There’s no agreement on when it emerged from the water, but official settlement began in the 1970s. Today, it’s home to around 3,000 people. But the land they live on isn’t stable; Santa Rosa’s shape and size shifts with the river’s flow. Each year, sandb...

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