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2. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest .

3. Amazônia Legal - Wikipedia

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   Amazônia Legal ( Portuguese pronunciation: [amaˈzonjɐ leˈɡaw] ), also known as Brazil's Legal Amazon ( BLA ), is the largest socio-geographic division in Brazil, containing all nine states in the Amazon basin. The government designated this region in 1948 based on its studies on how to plan the economic and social development of the Amazon ...

4. Amazônia National Park - Wikipedia

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   The Amazônia National Park ( Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Amazônia) was created in 1974, as a national park comprising 1,070,737 ha. It is situated in Itaituba and Trairão municipalities, Pará state, in the north region of Brazil. It is located in the watershed of the Tapajós River, about halfway between Manaus and Belém.

5. Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia

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   Amazonas (Brazilian state) /  5°S 63°W  / -5; -63. Amazonas [4] ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ɐmaˈzonɐs] ⓘ) is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the north-western corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the ninth-largest country subdivision in the world.

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 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km 2 (4,402 sq mi). Located at the east centre of the state, the city is the centre of the Manaus ...

7. Amazon biome - Wikipedia

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   In Brazil the biome covers more than 4,100,000 square kilometres (1,600,000 sq mi) and covers all or parts of the states of Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins and Mato Grosso. The Amazon biome covers 49.29% of Brazil. 16% of the biome is in Peru. As of 2015 about 23.4% of Peru's Amazon biome was protected ...

8. National Institute of Amazonian Research - Wikipedia

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   The National Institute of Amazonian Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia or INPA) is a public educational and research institution headquartered in Manaus, Brazil. It was founded in 1952, with the purpose of furthering scientific knowledge of the Brazilian Amazon Region. Most of INPA's research focuses on tropical forest ...

9. Amazon River - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon River ( UK: / ˈæməzən /, US: / ˈæməzɒn /; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.