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Amazonas was originally the captaincy of São Jose do Rio Negro, then a District of Grão-Pará, which became a province and finally a state of Brazil. 1616 - Captaincy of Maranhão begins westward expansion; 1751 - Maranhão reconstituted as state of Grão-Pará e Maranhão; 1755 - Captaincy of Rio Negro split off; 1757 - Captaincy of Rio ...
It is the largest conservation unit in Amazonas and the largest sustainable development reserve in the world. [4] Further downstream the river forms the boundary between the 275,533 hectares (680,860 acres) Rio Jutaí Extractive Reserve , created in 2002, to the southeast and the Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station to the northwest.
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The Juruá River (Portuguese: Rio Juruá; Spanish: Río Yuruá) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.
Map of the Tres Fronteras produced by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.. Tres Fronteras (Portuguese: Três Fronteiras, English: Three Frontiers) is an area of the Amazon rainforest in the Upper Amazon region of South America.
In the state of Amazonas the river runs through the 133,637 hectares (330,220 acres) Arapixi Extractive Reserve, created in 2006 and past the town of Boca do Acre at the end of the BR-317 highway. [6] Further down, it forms the west boundary of the 256,000 hectares (630,000 acres) Purus National Forest, created in 1988. [7]
The official designation Amazônia Legal encompasses all seven brazilian states of the North Region (Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins), as well as most of Mato Grosso in the Center-West Region and the western part of Maranhão in the Northeast Region. [3]
Atalaia do Norte is the most western municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. As of 2020, its population was 20,398 and its area is 76,355 km 2 , [ 3 ] thus making it the third largest municipality in Amazonas and the seventh largest in Brazil.