"Amazonas is named after the Amazon River, and was formerly part of the Spanish Empire´s Viceroyalty of Peru, a region called Spanish Guyana. It was settled ...
by the Portuguese moving northwest from Brazil in the early 18th century and incorporated into the Portuguese empire after the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. It became a state under the First Brazilian Republic in 1889.
Most of the state is tropical jungle; cities are clustered along navigable waterways and are accessible only by boat or plane. The capital and largest city is Manaus, a modern city of 2.1 million inhabitants in the middle of the jungle on the Amazon River 1,500 km upstream from the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly half the state´s population lives in the city; the other large cities, Parintins, Manacapuru, Itacoatiara, Tefé, and Coari are also along the Amazon River in the eastern half of the state." - (en.wikipedia.org 17.06.2020)
- Latitude-5
- Longitude-63
- Population3480937
