Manaus
Manaus is a metropolis of Brazil with about 2.6 million inhabitants in the center of the Amazon rainforest. Traveling to Manaus means taking a trip to the Amazon: there are countless jungle hotels that offer a huge variety of tours, from more adventurous…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 2,060,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Amazonas state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Manos”, “Mother of Gods”, and “Paris of the Tropics”
- Neighbors: Presidente Figueiredo
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palácio Rio Negro and Reservoir of Mocó.
Palácio Rio Negro
Museum
Photo: Madison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palácio Rio Negro in Manaus, Brazil, is a former seat of government and residence of the governor of the state of Amazonas. The original name was Scholz Palace, built by the German entrepreneur Karl Waldemar Scholz, who was considered to be a "Rubber Baron".
Reservoir of Mocó
Building
Photo: DERIVALDO MOTA DA SILVA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reservatório do Mocó is a water reservoir located in Manaus, northern Brazil in the street Belém, built in the 19th century, to the regular supply of water for the whole Manaus city at that time, remains in operation until the present day fuelling some…
Church of Saint Sebastian
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Church of Saint Sebastian is a religious temple owned by the Archdiocese of Manaus. It is located on 10 de Julho Street and its main facade faces the Largo de São Sebastião, in the center of the city of Manaus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include São Raimundo.
Manaus
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Amazonas, North, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-3.1316° or 3° 7′ 54″ southLongitude
-59.9825° or 59° 58′ 57″ westPopulation
2,060,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)IATA airport code
MAOUnited Nations Location Code
BR MAOOpen location code
6882V298+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 195594311OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3663517Wikidata ID
Q40236
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Manaus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Manaus”
- Arabic: “ماناوس”
- Aragonese: “Manaus”
- Armenian: “Մանաուս”
- Asturian: “Manaus”
- Azerbaijani: “Manaus”
- Balinese: “Manaus”
- Basque: “Manaus”
- Belarusian: “Манаус”
- Belarusian: “Манаўс”
- Bengali: “মানাউশ”
- Bishnupriya: “মানাউস”
- Bosnian: “Manaus”
- Breton: “Manaus”
- Bulgarian: “Манаус”
- Bulgarian: “Манауш”
- Burmese: “မာနာအူစ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Manaos”
- Catalan: “Manaus”
- Cebuano: “Manaus”
- Central Kurdish: “ماناوس”
- Chechen: “Манаус”
- Chinese: “Manaus”
- Chinese: “瑪瑙斯”
- Chinese: “马瑙斯”
- Corsican: “Manaus”
- Croatian: “Manaus”
- Czech: “Manaus”
- Danish: “Manaus”
- Dutch: “Manaus”
- Esperanto: “Manaŭo”
- Esperanto: “Manaus”
- Esperanto: “Manaŭso”
- Esperanto: “Parizo de la Tropiko”
- Esperanto: “Patrino de Dioj”
- Estonian: “Manaus”
- Faroese: “Manaus”
- Finnish: “Manaus”
- French: “Manaos”
- French: “Manaus”
- Galician: “Manaus”
- Georgian: “მანაუსი”
- German: “Manaus”
- Greek: “Μανάους”
- Guarani: “Manaos”
- Gujarati: “મનૌસ”
- Hausa: “Manaus”
- Hebrew: “מנאוס”
- Hindi: “मनौस”
- Hungarian: “Manaus”
- Icelandic: “Manaus”
- Ido: “Manaus”
- Indonesian: “Manaus”
- Interlingua: “Manaus”
- Interlingue: “Manaus”
- Irish: “Manaus”
- Italian: “Manaus”
- Japanese: “マナウス”
- Japanese: “マナオス”
- Kannada: “ಮನಾಸ್”
- Kannada: “ಮಾನೌಸ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Манаус”
- Kazakh: “Манаус”
- Kirghiz: “Манаус”
- Korean: “마나우스”
- Ladino: “Manaos”
- Latin: “Manaus”
- Latvian: “Manaus”
- Latvian: “Manausa”
- Limburgan: “Manaus”
- Lithuanian: “Manaus”
- Lithuanian: “Manausas”
- Luxembourgish: “Manaus”
- Macedonian: “Манаус”
- Malagasy: “Manaus”
- Malay: “Manaus”
- Maltese: “Manaus”
- Marathi: “मानौस”
- Mazanderani: “مانائوس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Manaus”
- Mirandese: “Manaus”
- Moksha: “Манаус”
- Mongolian: “Манаус”
- Nauru: “Manaus”
- Neapolitan: “Manaus”
- Northern Frisian: “Manaus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Manáos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Manaus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manaus”
- Norwegian: “Manaus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Manaus”
- Ossetian: “Манаус”
- Persian: “مانائوس”
- Polish: “Manaus”
- Portuguese: “Barra do Rio Negro”
- Portuguese: “Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro”
- Portuguese: “Cidade dos nobres Barés”
- Portuguese: “Mãe dos Deuses”
- Portuguese: “Manáos”
- Portuguese: “Manaus”
- Portuguese: “Metrópole da Amazônia”
- Portuguese: “Paris dos Trópicos”
- Portuguese: “Porto de Lenha”
- Quechua: “Manaos”
- Quechua: “Manaus”
- Romanian: “Manaus”
- Russian: “Manaus”
- Russian: “Манаус”
- Samogitian: “Manausos”
- Sardinian: “Manaus”
- Scots: “Manaus”
- Serbian: “Манаус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Manaus”
- Sicilian: “Manaus”
- Silesian: “Manaus”
- Sinhala: “මැනෝස්”
- Slovak: “Manaus”
- Slovenian: “Manaus”
- South Azerbaijani: “مانائوس”
- Spanish: “Manaos”
- Spanish: “Manaus”
- Swahili: “Manaus”
- Swedish: “Manaus”
- Tagalog: “Manaus”
- Tajik: “Манаус”
- Tamil: “மனௌசு”
- Tatar: “Манаус”
- Telugu: “మ్యానాయస్”
- Tetum: “Manaus”
- Thai: “มาเนาช์”
- Thai: “มาเนาส์”
- Turkish: “Manaus”
- Twi: “Manaus”
- Ukrainian: “Манаус”
- Urdu: “میناس”
- Urdu: “میناوس”
- Uzbek: “Manaus”
- Venetian: “Manaus”
- Veps: “Manaus”
- Vietnamese: “Manaus”
- Volapük: “Manaus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Manaus”
- Welsh: “Manaos”
- Welsh: “Manaus”
- Western Frisian: “Manaus”
- Western Panjabi: “ماناؤس”
- Wu Chinese: “马瑙斯”
- Yiddish: “מאנאוס”
- Yue Chinese: “瑪瑙斯”
- “Manaus”
- “Manausos”
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