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A traditional wooden sailing raft of northern Brazil.
2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 143:
We went out into the bay on Paulo's jangada and I dived into the clear water and struck off some distance, then floated and looked back at the handsome boat.