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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.
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]
This is a list of plants found in the wild in Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil. The estimates from useful plants suggested that there are 800 plant species of economic or social value in this forest, according to Giacometti (1990). [1]
Discocarpus essequeboensis Klotzsch - Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Amapá), Venezuela , Guyana (Essequibo, Rupununi), Suriname, French Guiana [3] [8] Discocarpus gentryi S.M.Hayden - S Venezuela , Peru , N Brazil [3] [9] Discocarpus pedicellatus Fiaschi & Cordeiro - State of Bahia in Brazil [3]
There is no official decree designating a National Flower of Brazil Unofficially: Flowers of the ipê-amarelo (Handroanthus chrysotrichus), the gold trumpet tree [a]
The national flower of Nicaragua is known as the sacuanjoche (plumeria rubra). The sacuanjoche flower (Plumeria) grows on a conical tree that flowers around May. Sacuanjoche flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators.
The twenty-five stars in the upper left corner represent the twenty-five municipalities of the state in 1897, the year that the Military Forces of Amazonas entered into the War of Canudos. [1] The largest star, in the center, represents the capital, Manaus. The two horizontal white bands represent hope, the dark blue of the quadratic drawing ...
Xanthosoma trilobum G.S.Bunting - Amazonas State of Venezuela Xanthosoma ulei Engl. - northwestern Brazil Xanthosoma undipes (K.Koch) K.Koch – tall elephant's ear - widespread from Bolivia north to southern Mexico and West Indies