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The wealthiest neighborhood in Manaus is Adrianópolis, located in the Central-South Area of the city. 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.
South Rio Negro conservation units 10: Anavilhanas National Park. The park is in the municipalities of Manaus and Novo Airão. [2] It is managed by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. [3] The fluvial part of the park, 60% of the total, has more than 400 islands.
The park is one of the largest protected areas in Brazil. It is about 220 kilometres (140 mi) northwest of Manaus and contains the entire Jaú River basin between the Unini River to the north and the Carabinani River to the south. All three rivers flow east to enter the right bank of the Rio Negro. [1]
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While the animals in the Amazon are often larger than life, this South American rainforest region have some of the world’s smallest creatures This rainforest is full of tiny, miniature creatures ...
The Lower Rio Negro Mosaic was established to cover 11 protected area in six Amazonas municipalities: Manaus, Novo Airão, Iranduba, Manacapuru, Barcelos and Presidente Figueiredo, with a total area of 7,412,849 hectares (18,317,550 acres). [1]
The Rio Negro (Spanish: Río Negro [ˈri.o ˈneɣɾo] "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, [8] and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.
Brazil's immense area is subdivided into different ecoregions in several kinds of biomes.Because of the wide variety of habitats in Brazil, from the jungles of the Amazon Rainforest and the Atlantic Forest (which includes Atlantic Coast restingas), to the tropical savanna of the Cerrado, to the xeric shrubland of the Caatinga, to the world's largest wetland area, the Pantanal, there exists a ...