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Amazonas is a state in the . It is the largest state of Brazil by area. Amazonas' territory is 98% covered by rainforest. The exuberance of the tropical rain forest, associated with hot and humid climate, are responsible for the largest biodiversity on Earth.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Manaus and Jaú National Park.

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is a metropolis of with about 2.6 million inhabitants in the center of the Amazon rainforest. Traveling to means taking a trip to the Amazon: there are countless jungle hotels that offer a huge variety of tours, from more adventurous…

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is in the state of Amazonas. It is a world heritage-site and preserves many fine examples of Amazonian fauna and flora.

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is a municipality in the far east of the Amazonas state of . It is part of a microregion also named . The population for the entire municipality was 115,363 and its area is 5,952 km2.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as São Gabriel da Cachoeira and Tefé.

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is a city on the shores of the Negro River, in the state of Amazonas. Most of its inhabitants are Indigenous people.

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is a town in Amazonas, . It is about 525 km by air or 595 km by river to the west of on the south bank of the Solimões River, on the lake formed by the mouth of the River.

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is a Brazilian city on the triple border with , and , in the northwest of the state of Amazonas. It forms a contiguous settlement with the town of , on the Amazon River.

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is a city of 102,000 people on the banks of the Solimões River in Amazonas. is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the Amazon, receiving a large number of tourists who visit the nearby beaches, lakes and streams, which have several jungle hotels.

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is a Brazilian town of 44,000 people across the river from Peru in Amazonas region. It lies about a half-hour motorboat ride southwest from and .

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, formerly Mariuá, is a municipality located in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Its population was 27,638 and its area is 122,476 square kilometres.

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is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 37,193 and its area is 25,422 km2.

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is a town on the north bank of the Solimões River in Amazonas, , 867 km by river to the west of . It has a population of 18,755. is not a common tourist destination but is a convenient stopping point for trips along the Amazon River and provide a look at a typical town of the region.

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National Park is a national park that encompasses a huge river archipelago in the Rio Negro in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It is part of a World Heritage Site.
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Amazonas

Latitude of center
-4.4799° or 4° 28′ 48″ south
Longitude of center
-63.5185° or 63° 31′ 7″ west
Population
4,210,000
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
Abbreviation
“AM”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2614266154
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3665361
Wiki­data ID
Q40040
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Amazonas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amazonas”
  • Albanian: “Amazonas”
  • Arabic: “الأمازون”
  • Arabic: “الامزون”
  • Armenian: “Ամազոնաս”
  • Asturian: “Amazonas”
  • Asturian: “Amazones”
  • Asturian: “Estáu del Amazones”
  • Aymara: “Amazonas Istado”
  • Aymara: “Amazonas Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amazonas”
  • Basque: “Amazonas”
  • Basque: “Amazonaseko estatua”
  • Belarusian: “Амазонас”
  • Belarusian: “штат Амазонас”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Амазонас”
  • Bengali: “আমাজোনাস”
  • Bishnupriya: “আমাজোনাস”
  • Bosnian: “Amazonas”
  • Breton: “Amazonas”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонас”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонаш”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонка”
  • Burmese: “အမေဇုံနက်စ်ပြည်နယ် (ဘရာဇီး ပြည်နယ်)”
  • Burmese: “အမေဇုံနက်စ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Estat d’Amazonas”
  • Catalan: “Estat d’Amazones”
  • Catalan: “Estat de l’Amazones”
  • Catalan: “Estat de lAmazones”
  • Cebuano: “Amazonas”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی ئەمازۆن”
  • Chinese: “Amazonas”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙州”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜州 (巴西)”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜州”
  • Cornish: “Amazonas”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Amazonas”
  • Croatian: “Amazonas, država”
  • Croatian: “Amazonas”
  • Czech: “Amazonas”
  • Danish: “Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Amazonas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امازوناس (ولايه برازيليه)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امازوناس”
  • Esperanto: “Amazonio”
  • Esperanto: “Amazono”
  • Estonian: “Amazonase osariik”
  • Finnish: “Amazonas”
  • French: “AM”
  • French: “Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Estado do Amazonas, Brasil”
  • Galician: “Estado do Amazonas”
  • Georgian: “ამაზონასი”
  • German: “AM”
  • German: “Amazonas”
  • German: “Estado do Amazonas”
  • Greek: “Αμαζόνας”
  • Guarani: “Amasóna”
  • Guarani: “Amazonas”
  • Gujarati: “એમેઝોનાઝ”
  • Hebrew: “אמאזונאס”
  • Hebrew: “אמזונאס”
  • Hebrew: “מדינת אמזונאס”
  • Hindi: “अमेज़ोनस”
  • Hindi: “आमेज़ोनास”
  • Hungarian: “Amazonas”
  • Icelandic: “Amazonas”
  • Ido: “Amazonas”
  • Indonesian: “Amazonas, Brasil”
  • Indonesian: “Amazonas”
  • Indonesian: “Negara bagian Amazonas”
  • Interlingua: “Amazonas”
  • Irish: “Amazonas”
  • Italian: “Amazonas”
  • Japanese: “アマゾナス”
  • Japanese: “アマソナス州”
  • Japanese: “アマゾナス州”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಜೋನಾಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೋಲಿ ಕ್ರಾಸ್ನ ಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kirghiz: “Амазонас (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Амазонас”
  • Korean: “아마소나스 주”
  • Korean: “아마조나스 주”
  • Korean: “아마조나스주”
  • Ladino: “Amazonas”
  • Latin: “Amazonensis”
  • Latin: “Amazones”
  • Latin: “civitas Amazonensis”
  • Latin: “Civitas Amazonensis”
  • Latvian: “Amazonasa”
  • Limburgan: “Amazonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonė”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės valstija”
  • Lombard: “Amazonas”
  • Macedonian: “Амазон”
  • Malagasy: “Amazonas”
  • Malay: “Amazonas”
  • Marathi: “अमेझोनास”
  • Mazanderani: “آمازوناس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amazonas Chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amazonas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amazonas i Brasil”
  • Norwegian: “Amazonas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amazonas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Amazonas”
  • Ossetian: “Амазонас”
  • Persian: “آمازوناس”
  • Persian: “امازوناس”
  • Piemontese: “Amazonas”
  • Polish: “Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “AM”
  • Portuguese: “Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “UF:AM”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu suyu”
  • Romanian: “Amazonas”
  • Russian: “Амазонас”
  • Scots: “Amazonas”
  • Serbian: “Амазонас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonas”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝනාස් ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝනාස්”
  • Slovak: “Amazonas”
  • Slovenian: “AM”
  • Slovenian: “Amazonas”
  • Slovenian: “Amazonija”
  • Spanish: “Amazonas (Brasil)”
  • Spanish: “Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “estado del Amazonas”
  • Swahili: “Amazonas, Brazil”
  • Swahili: “Amazonas”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Amazonas”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas, Brasilien”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas”
  • Tajik: “Амазонас”
  • Tamil: “அமேசோனாசு”
  • Tatar: “Амазонас”
  • Telugu: “అమెజోనాస్”
  • Tetum: “Amazonas”
  • Thai: “รัฐอามาโซนัช”
  • Thai: “รัฐอามาโซนัส”
  • Turkish: “AM”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas”
  • Turkish: “BR-AM”
  • Turkish: “Estado do Amazonas”
  • Ukrainian: “Амазонас (штат Бразилії)”
  • Ukrainian: “Амазонас”
  • Urdu: “ایمازوناس”
  • Uzbek: “Amazonas”
  • Venetian: “Amazonas”
  • Vietnamese: “Amazonas”
  • Volapük: “Amazonas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amazonas”
  • Welsh: “Amazonas”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایمازوناس”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚马孙州 (巴西)”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚马孙州（巴西）”
  • Yoruba: “Amazonas”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞馬遜州”
  • “AM”
  • “Amasònia”
  • “Amazonas”
  • “Amazzonia”
  • “BR-AM”
  • “ma Amasona”
  • “ma Amazonas”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Amazonas”. Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.