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Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and the largest in South America, being greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. Entirely in the Western Hemisphere, it is the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere after Greenland, Nunavut and Alaska. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. Neighbouring states are Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas state in Venezuela, and the Loreto Region in Peru.
Ouro Preto, formerly Vila Rica, is a city in and former capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains and designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque Portuguese colonial architecture.
Manaus 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 km2 (4,402 sq mi). Located at the east center of the state, the city is the center of the Manaus metropolitan area and the largest metropolitan area in the North Region of Brazil by urban landmass. It is situated near the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the only city in the Amazon Rainforest with a population over 1 million people.
São José do Rio Preto is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city is located at the northwest portion of the state, 440 km (273 mi) from the city of São Paulo and 700 km (435 mi) from Brasília. As of the 2021 census, the population of the city was 469,173 inhabitants making it the 11th largest city in the state of São Paulo and the 36th largest city in Brazil.
This is a list of the extreme points of The Americas, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, which is the southernmost point of the Chilean islands. The Americas cross 134° of longitude east to west and 124° of latitude north to south.
Tefé, known in early accounts as Teffé, is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil.
Rio Preto da Eva is a municipality located just east of Manaus in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 34,106 (2020) and its area is 5,813 square kilometres (2,244 sq mi).
Rio Preto may refer to:
Córrego Grande Biological Reserve is a biological reserve spanning the boundary of Bahia and Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Preto River or Prêto River may refer to these rivers in Brazil:
Preto River is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Unini River.
Urubu River is a river in Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Amazon River, and it branches to the north near the town of Itacoatiara. It is a blackwater river.
Holanda Esporte Clube, commonly known as Holanda, is a Brazilian football club based in Rio Preto da Eva, Amazonas. They won the Campeonato Amazonense once and competed in the Série C and in the Copa do Brasil once.
Manaus Compensão Esporte Clube, commonly known as Manaus Compensão, or as Compensão, is a Brazilian football club based in Manaus, Amazonas.
The Rio Urubu State Forest is a state forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
Ammoglanis obliquus is a species of pencil catfish endemic to the Rio Preto da Eva drainage in the central Brazilian Amazon. This species reaches a length of 1.55 cm (0.61 in).
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