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Itacambiruçu River

river in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2023
Entity authorityQ6092300 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Itacambiruçu River is a river of Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil.

See also

List of rivers of Minas Gerais

References

Map from Ministry of Transport

Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Itacambiruçu River” is river in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Itacambiruçu, River and river, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Itacambiruçu, River and river is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “river in Minas Gerais, Brazil” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6092300. Authority coordinates are -16.728, -42.606. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Itacambiruçu River”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Itacambiruçu River primary sources, Itacambiruçu River archive and Itacambiruçu research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Itacambiruçu River”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Itacambiruçu River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.