Manaus

**Manaus** ( or ) is a ceety in Brazil, the caipital o the state o Amazonas. It is situatit at the confluence o the Negro an Solimões rivers. It is the maist populous ceety o Amazonas, accordin tae the statistics o Brazilian Institute o Geografie an Statistics, an is a popular ecotourist destination. Manaus belongs tae mesoregion Center Amazonense an microregion Manaus. It is locatit in northren Brazil, 1,936 kilometers (1,203&nbsp;mi) frae the federal caipital, Brasília.

The ceety wis foondit in 1669 as the Fort o São José dae Rio Negro. It wis elevatit tae a toun in 1832 wi the name o "Manaus", which means "mither o the gods" in tribute tae the indigenous naition o Manaós, an legally transformed intae a ceety on October 24 o 1848 wi the name o *Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro*, Portuguese for "The Ceety o the Margins o Black River". Anly on September 4 o 1856 did it revert tae its current name.

It wis kent at the beginnin o the century, as *Heart o the Amazon* an *Ceety o the Forest*. Currently its main economic ingine is the Industrial Pool o Manaus.

It is the lairgest metropolitan aurie in Northren Brazil an the elevent in aw o Brazil, wi 2,283,906 indwallers (IBGE/2012). The population in 2012 wis 1.85 million fowk; it is the maist populous ceety in North Region an seivent maist populous ceety o Brazil, accordin tae data frae Brazilian Institute o Geografie an Statistics, the IBGE. The ceety gradually increased its participation in the GDP o Brazil in recent decades, risin tae accoont for 1.4% o the economy o the kintra in 2010, wi aw that economic pouer comin mainly frae the Free Economic Zone locatit in the ceety. Currently, the ceety is ane o 12 maist influential ceeties o the kintra. Manaus alone represents 10.89% o the population o the whole o Northren Brazil an 49.9% o the population o the Amazon.

## History

### Early settlement
The history o the European colonization o Manaus began in 1669 wi the buildin o the Fort o São José da Barra dae Rio Negroa bi Portugal in order tae ensur its predominance  in the region, especially against  the Dutch, at that time heidquartered in what is the day Suriname. The fort wis constructit in rock an clay, wi fower cannon guardin the curtains. It continued tae function for mair nor 114 years. Next tae the fort thare wur mony indigenous mestizos, who helped in its construction an began tae live in the vicinity.

The population grew sae much that in 1695, the missionaries (Carmelite, Jesuit, Franciscan) biggit a nearby chapel dedicatit tae Oor Lady o the Conception, which in time acame the patron saunt o the ceety.

The Ryal Charter o Mairch 3 o 1755, creatit the Capitania o Sao Jose dae Rio Negro, wi heidquarters in Mariuá (nou Barcelos), but the govrenor, Lobo D'Almada, fearin Spaingie invasions, the seat went back tae the bar in place o 1791, bein locatit at the confluence o the rivers Black an Amazon it wis a strategic pynt. On November 13 o 1832, the place o the bar acame the category o toun wi the name o the toun o Manaus an on October 24 o 1848, wi Law 145 o the Provincial Assembly Paraense, acquired the name o the Bar o the Ceety o Rio Negro. On September 4 o 1856 the govrenor Herculano Ferreira Pena finally gae him the name "Manaus".

### Cabanagem
The Cabanagem wis the revolt in which blacks, Indians an mestizos protestit against the poleetical elite an teuk pouer in 1835. The entry o the Heich Amazonas (Manaus the day, which wis the cradle o the ceety in the Westren Amazon) in Cabanagem wis crucial for the birth o the current state o the Amazon. Durin the period o revolution, the Cabanos o the Heich Amazon, baunds o rebels, roamed throughout the region, an in maist settlements thair arrival wis greeted bi the non-white population's spontaneously jynin thair ranks an thare wis a greater nummer o adherents tae the movement. Wi that thare wis an integration o fowk surroundin sicweys fairmin the state, thanks tae Cabanagem. the ceety wis biggit acause o the rubber trees.

### The rubber boom
Manaus wis at the centre o the Amazon region's rubber boom durin the late 19t century. For a time, it wis "ane o the gaudiest ceeties o the warld" Ane historian haes written, "No extravagance, however absurd, deterred" the rubber barons. "If ane rubber baron boucht a vast yacht, anither would install a tame lion in his villa, an a third would watter his horse on champagne." The decadence extendit tae a grand opera hoose, vast domes an gildit balconies, an marble, gless, an crystal, frae aroond Europe. The opera hoose cost ten million (public-funded) dollars, but its foolhardiness wis demonstratit bi the daith bi yellae fiver o hauf the members o ane visitin opera troupe. The opera hoose, cried the Teatro Amazonas, still exists the day; it haes been restored, wis uised in the Werner Herzog film *[[Fitzcarraldo]]*, an efter a teep o interlude lastin almaist 90 years, presents operas ance again.

When the seeds o the rubber tree wur smuggled oot o the Amazon region, Brazil lost its monopoly on the product an Manaus fell intae poverty. The rubber boom haed broucht electricity tae the ceety afore it arrived in mony European ceeties, but the end o the rubber boom made the generators too expensive tae run, an the ceety lost airtifeecial lichtin for years.

The declaration o a duty free zone in Manaus addit tae the economic prosperity o the ceety.

## Geografie
The lairgest ceety in northren Brazil, Manaus occupies an aurie o 11,401 square kilometers, wi a density o 144.4 indwallers/km ². It is the neighborin ceety o Presidente Figueiredo, Careiro, Iranduba, Rio Preto da Eva, Itacoatiara an Novo Airão.

### Climate
Manaus haes a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification "Am"). Rainfaw intensity is somewhat saisonal, wi ane hauf o the year (coincidin wi the Soothren winter) bein hauf as rainy as the ither. Manaus technically haes a dry saison month, August, whaur less nor  o precipitation faws. Acause o this dry saison month, the ceety’s climate faws unner the tropical monsoon climate category instead o the tropical rainforest climate category. Average annual temperature is , wi mair or less consistent temperatures aw year roond.

### Vegetation
The Amazon represents ower hauf o the planet's remainin rainforests an comprises the lairgest an maist species-rich tract o tropical rainforest in the warld. Wet tropical forests are the maist species-rich biome, an tropical forests in the Americaes are consistently mair species rich than the wet forests in Africae an Asie.  As the lairgest tract o tropical rainforest in the Americaes, the Amazonian rainforests hae unparalleled biodiversity. Mair nor 1/3 o aw species in the warld live in the Amazon Rainforest.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns – sister ceeties
Manaus is twinned wi:

## References

## Freemit airtins

* The Best from Manaus  
* Manaus Official Site  
* Globo Site Manaus Online – portal for Manaus 
* Historic Teatro Amazonas .
* National Institute of Amazonian Research website (in Portuguese an Inglis).
*  / Newspapers of Manaus
* Visit Manaus 2010 guidebook & forum 
* INFRAERO - Airport of Manaus
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