Manaus - Wikipedia. Manaus. Municipality. Munic. It is situated near the confluence of the Negro and Solim. With a population of more than 2 million, it is the most populous city of both the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It was elevated to a town in 1. On September 4, 1.

This isolation helped preserve both the natural environment as well as the culture of the city. The culture of Manaus, more than in any other urban area of Brazil, preserves the habits of Native Brazilian tribes. The city is the main access point for visiting the fauna and flora of the Brazilian Amazon. Few places in the world afford such a variety of plants, birds, insects, and fishes.

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The city has a free port and an international airport. Its manufactures include electronics, chemical products, and soap; there are distilling and ship construction industries. Manaus also exports Brazil nuts, rubber, jute and rosewood oil. It has a cathedral, opera house, zoological and botanical gardens, an ecopark and regional and native peoples museums. Manaus is 1,4. 00 km (9.

Atlantic Ocean. It is the hub of tourism for the rivers, the jungle lodges and the river cruises. Rubber made it the richest city in South America during the late 1. Rubber also helped Manaus earn its nickname, the .

Many wealthy European families settled in Manaus and brought their love for sophisticated European art, architecture and culture with them. Manaus is also a duty- free zone, which has encouraged development in the region. The Spanish then continued to colonize the region north of Brazil. Development continued in 1. Fort of S. The fort was constructed in rock and clay, with four cannon guarding the curtains. Next to the fort there were many indigenous mestizos, who helped in its construction and began to live in the vicinity. Being located at the confluence of the Rio Negro and Amazon Rivers, it was a strategic point.

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On November 1. 3 of 1. Lugar da Barra was elevated to town status and named Manaus. On October 2. 4 of 1. Law 1. 45 of the Provincial Assembly of Para, it was renamed City of Barra do Rio Negro. On September 4 of 1. Herculano Ferreira Pena finally gave it the name .

The Cabanagem reduced the population of the then state of Gr. During the brief period of revolution, the Cabanos of the Upper Amazon, bands of rebels, roamed throughout the region, occupying Manaus twice, and in most settlements their arrival was greeted by the non- white population spontaneously joining their ranks, leading to a greater number of adherents to the movement. With that there was an integration of people in the region thus forming the state.

For a time, it was . The opera house cost ten million (public- funded) dollars. In one season, half the members of one visiting opera troupe died of yellow fever. However it was used in scenes of the Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo (1.

After a gap of almost 9. The rubber boom ended abruptly, many people left its major cities, and Manaus fell into poverty. The rubber boom had made possible electrification of the city before it was installed on many European cities, but the end of the rubber boom made the generators too expensive to run. The city was not able to generate electricity again for years.

A massive prison riot occurred in January 2. Manaus and has later spread to two additional cities in Brazil. It is the neighboring city of Presidente Figueiredo, Careiro, Iranduba, Rio Preto da Eva, Itacoatiara and Novo Air. Because the driest month, August, sees less than 6. There is rain throughout the year in the city, though there is a drier period from July to September.

Climate data for Manaus (1. Month. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Year. Record high . Wet tropical forests are the most species- rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in Africa and Asia.

More than one- third of all species in the world live in the Amazon Rainforest. The largest green areas are: Mindu Park, located in the center- south of the city, the district Park 1. The Park of Mind. It is the smallest state park of the Brazilian Amazon Basin. Castanheiras Pied Tamarin Wildlife Refuge, a 9.

Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve, a biological reserve established in 1. The Reserve is managed by INPA (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia - National Institute for Amazon Research).

Part of the Anavilhanas National Park, a 3. The Puraquequara forms the east boundary of the urban area in its lower section. The population density was 1. The racial makeup of the city was 6. Mixed race, 3. 1. White, 2. 4. 3% Black, 0. Asian or Amerindian.

Most of the population is located in the North and East regions of the city, and the New Town (northern area) the neighborhood is the most populous, with more than 2. According to the results of the last census, the city's population increased from 3. By 1. 99. 0 the population grew to 1,0. Judaism, Candombl. These churches are experiencing considerable growth, mainly in the outskirts of the city. How To Watch The Good Dinosaur (2015) Movie more. A LDS temple has been built in the city, the 6th in Brazil.

The eastern region of the city is the most populated, with approximately 6. The Center- South region has the highest per capita income.

From there, other areas of the city began to be occupied, with the arrival of migrants from other regions of Brazil. Manaus has the largest neighborhood of Latin America, the neighborhood of Cidade Nova, which has 2. Cidade Nova is larger than all the cities inside the Amazonas state. Downtown Manaus is located in the Southern area of the city, next to Rio Negro River. After years of development, the historical center has been neglected by the authorities and it has become an area mostly for commerce and poor housing.

There is a plan to restore the city centre to its former glory by removing beggars and irregular sellers from sidewalks and by doing that provide more safety for tourists and locals who are trying to walk in the historical areas of the city. All these plans were prompted by the 2. World Cup. Economy.

According to IBGE in 2. GDP was R$6. 7,5 billion.

Given its location, fish, wild fruits like A. Over the last decades, a system of federal investments and tax incentives has turned the surrounding region into a major industrial center (the Free Economic Zone of Manaus). Manaus sprawls, but the center of town, the Centro where most of the hotels and attractions are located, rises above the river on a slight hill. As the largest city and a major port on the river, Manaus is commercial.

Local industries include brewing, shipbuilding, soap manufacturing, the production of chemicals, computers, motorcycles and petroleum refining of oil brought in by barge and tourism. The Brazilian sport utility vehicle manufacturer Amazon Veiculos is headquartered in Manaus. June 6, 1. 95. 7. The project was approved by the National Congress on October 2. No. 1. 3. 10 and regulated by Decree No.

February 2, 1. 96. It was then amended by rapporteur Maurcio Jopper, engineer, who by agreement with the original author, justified the creation of a Free Trade Zone instead of a Free Trade Port.

For the first ten years the ZFM (Manaus Free Trade Zone) was located in a warehouse rented from Manaus Harbour, in the Port of Manaus, and relied on federal funds. It was perhaps due to this lack of its own resources that there was little credibility in the project.

On February 2. 8, 1. Full Moon In Paris (2015) Theater Movie there. President. Castello Branco signed Decree- Law No. Manaus Free Trade Zone in more concrete terms.

The new Decree- Law stipulated that the Manaus Free Trade Zone would have a radius of 1. Amazon out of the economic isolation that it had fallen into at that time. On August 2. 8, 1. Manaus Free Trade Zone Authority, SUFRAMA, was created. SUFRAMA is an independent body with its own legal status and assets and having financial and administrative autonomy.