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The Port of Manaus is a riverport located on the Rio Negro in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. The Port of Manaus is an important commercial center for ocean-going vessels traveling the Amazon. In fact, it is the main transport hub for the entire upper Amazon basin. It imports beef from the hinterlands and exports hides and leather.
In 1899, preparations began for the improvement of the Port of Manaus in order to optimize the transportation of products. [1] In 1900, the Federal Government signed a contract with B. Rymkierwiez & Cia, which transferred the project to the English firm Manaos Harbour Limited. Originally, the main building was designed to function as a general ...
Manaus (Portuguese: [mɐˈnaws, ma-] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2022 population of 2,063,689 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km 2 (4,402 sq mi).
Monument Abertura dos Portos (English: Monument to the Opening of the Ports) is located in the Largo de São Sebastião, in front of the Amazon Theatre, in the city of Manaus, Brazil. It was inaugurated in 1900 to commemorate the liberation of the ports of the Amazon River to foreign trade, in 1866.
Port of Antonina; Port of Belém; Port of Itajaí; Port of Manaus; Port of Natal; Port of Paranaguá; Port of Pecém; Port of Porto Alegre; Port of Rio de Janeiro; Port of Rio Grande; Port of Salvador; Port of Santana; Port of Santarém; Port of Santos; Port of São Francisco do Sul; Port of Tubarão; Porto do Itaqui
Port region of Manaus, c. 1970. In 1991, the municipality exceeded 1 million inhabitants, and in 2014 it exceeded 2 million, doubling its population in 23 years. It is currently the 26th most populous city in America and the 7th most populous in Brazil, housing almost half the population of Amazonas.
For 6 km (3.7 mi) the waters of the two rivers run side by side without mixing. This phenomenon is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus. The river then flows another 60 km (37 mi) before mixing fully, but the phenomenon persists incompletely for another 30 km (19 mi). [1]
The new Decree-Law stipulated that the Manaus Free Trade Zone would have an area of 10,000 km 2 (3,900 sq mi) with an industrial centre as well as an agricultural center and that these would be given the economic means to allow for regional development in order to lift the Amazon out of the economic isolation that it had fallen into at that ...