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The city of Manaus in Brazil, South America.
By Mark on March 25, 2010
This is about the Brazilian city of Manus, it is the capital of the state of Amazonas. You will find this city inbetween the rivers of the Negro and Solimões. Manus is actually the highest populated city within the Amazonas state, this is according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and is a popular ecotourist destination. The city actually belongs to the mesoregion Center Amazonense and microregion Manaus and it is situated in the north of Brazil and is 1,932 kilometers (1,200 miles) from the federal capital, Brasília.
Manus was created in 1669, back then it was as a fort, that was to protect the then city of São José do Rio Negro. But it was around 1832, that the fort was then created into a town, it was named “Manus” which in indigenous peoples language mean’t “mother of the gods”. It was in tribute to the indigenous nation of Manaós, and then finally, it became an official city on October 24 of 1848, and it was back then named “Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro”, which in Portuguese means “The City of the Margins of Black River”. Only on September 4 of 1856 did it revert to its current name, and it was also known as the Heart of the Amazon and City of the Forest at the start of the century and it’s economic engine that keeps the city going is it’s Industrial Pool of Manaus.
Manus happens to be the largest metropolitan area and within the north of Brazil and back in 2008, the records showed that there was a population of 2,006,870 with the city population of 1.71 million people, this makes Manus the eighth most populous city of Brazil. The city at the moment is starting to flourish with the economy doing ok. The city of Manaus alone represents 10.89% of the population of the whole Northern Brazil and 49.9% of the population of the Amazon.
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