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  2. Lists of Brazil state symbols - Wikipedia

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    The states and federal district of Brazil have representative symbols that are recognized by their state legislative assemblies.While all states have official flags, coats of arms, and anthems [], some states have officially designated additional state symbols such as trees, flowers, and animals.

  3. Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia

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    Amazonas is the Brazilian state with the biggest indigenous population, and 53 out of the known 274 indigenous languages in Brazil are spoken in Amazonas. [27] According to a 2013 genetic study, the ancestry of the inhabitants of Manaus is 45.9% European, 37.8% Native American and 16.3% African. [28]

  4. Category:Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia

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    Amazonas state — the Brazilian state located in the Amazon Basin and North Region of Brazil. Amazonas state location in Brazil Subcategories. This category has the ...

  5. History of Amazonas - Wikipedia

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    The state went through a crisis, the treasury lost revenue and practically reached zero, even neglecting to pay state employees for four years in a row. In 1924, Amazonas joined São Paulo in a civic-regionalist movement that demanded that the natives of the region take back political and cultural leadership. [31]

  6. Manaus - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. São Gabriel da Cachoeira - Wikipedia

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    The city was founded in 1668 as an aldea by Franciscan Friar Teodósio da Veiga and Captain Pedro da Costa Favela on the Rio Negro, near the mouth of the Rio Aruím.In 1761, a fort was built on the location, and the settlement became the town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira.

  8. Humaitá National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Humaitá National Forest is in the Humaitá municipality of the state of Amazonas. [1] It covers an area of 473,154.76 hectares (1,169,190.9 acres). [2] The forest is bounded by the border with Rondônia to the south, the Madeira River to the west and the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) to the north.

  9. Roosevelt River - Wikipedia

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    The expedition, led by Roosevelt and Cândido Rondon, Brazil's most famous explorer and the river's discoverer, sought to determine where and by which course the river flowed into the Amazon. [ 6 ] Roosevelt and his son Kermit undertook the adventure after the former U.S. president's failed attempt to regain the office as the " Bull Moose Party ...