Amapá (city)

Município de Amapá Amapá
Landscape near Amapá
Amapá
Coordinates	2 ° 3 ′  N , 50 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 2 ° 3 ′  N , 50 ° 47 ′  W
Location of Amapá in the state of the same name
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	October 22, 1901
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Amapá
Região intermediária	Oiapoque-Porto Grande (since 2017)
Região imediata	Oiapoque (since 2017)
structure	2 districts: Amapá, Sucuriju
height	8 m
Waters	Atlantic Ocean, Rio Amapá
climate	Af, tropical
surface	9,167.6 km²
Residents	8069 (2010)
density	0.9  Ew. / km²
estimate	9109 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1600105
Time zone	UTC −3
politics
City Prefect	Carlos Sampaio Duarte (2017-2020)
Political party	Partido da Mobilização Nacional (PMN)
economy
GDP	167,323  thousand R $ 19,563 R $ per person  (2014)
HDI	0.642 (2010)

Amapá , officially Município de Amapá , is a small town in the Brazilian state of Amapá in the Região Norte . It is located on the Atlantic Ocean and is around 302 km from the capital Macapá . The population was estimated at 9,109 inhabitants on July 1, 2019. The inhabitants who live in the approximately 9167.6 km² area are called Amapaenser (Portuguese amapaenses ). The population density in 2010 was less than one person (0.8) per km².

Toponymy

“Amapá-doce”, milk of amapazeiro

The state and the city of the same name are named after the amapazeiro (Parahancornia amapa) from the Apocynaceae family . This thick-stemmed tree is about one meter in diameter at the base. It has a thick rind from which a whitish milk flows, known as "Amapá milk" and which can be used medicinally.

geography

The landscape and biome are predominantly shaped by the Amazon rainforest . The climate is tropical according to the Köppen and Geiger Am / Af climate classification . The average temperature is 26.6 ° C. There is a lot of precipitation and few dry spells.

In front of Amapá in the Atlantic lies the flat double island of Ilha do Macará , about 5 kilometers from the coast , which is under nature protection. Hunting and fishing are prohibited. On it is the ecological research and protection station Estação Ecológica de Maracá-Jipioca .

The nature reserve Reserva Biológica do Lago Piratuba occupies the southern part of the municipality . Here is also a lake landscape, the Região dos Lagos . The protected areas of the Amapá municipality form the eastern part of the Corredor de Biodiversidade do Amapá biotope network , which comprises around 72% of the state .

Surrounding places are:

Northwest:	North: Calçoene	Northeast:
West: forest		East: Atlantic
Southwest: Macapá	South: Cutias , Tartarugalzinho	Southeast:

history

The country was the original settlement area of ​​the extinct Arawak Indians and the Nuaruaque . In modern times, the entire territory was disputed territory between French Guiana and Brazil until 1900 . Mineral resources were discovered in Calçoene to the north in 1893, causing an influx of garimpeiros from Pará . At that time, the border's political problems were rekindled. In 1895 French troops landed in the small town of Amapá. The Brazilians responded and repelled the invasion, with the Army General of Honor Francisco Xavier da Veiga Cabral making a name for himself. In 1900, José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior , barão do Rio Branco, was able to diplomatically agree to belong to Brazil in Switzerland. It first came to the state of Pará, and attempts were made to reorganize as the territory of Aricari . The settlements of the old disputed area, the Contestado, were combined and the place was elevated to Vila de Amapá on October 22, 1901 by State Law No. 798 . This date is considered to be the founding of the city, although a local administration was only set up on April 30, 1902.

From 1911 to 1930 the place was called Montenegro , in 1938 it was briefly renamed Veiga Cabral . The country became the Federal Território Federal do Amapá in 1943 , the capital of which became Amapá, until it lost this status to Macapá in 1944. Since 1995 the area has been divided into two districts: Amapá as the headquarters and Sucuriju .

In 2017, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística changed the assignment to geostatistical regions and assigned the municipality to the Região geográfica imediata Oiapoque and the Região geográfica intermediária Oiapoque-Porto Grande .

City administration

Executive: In the local elections in 2016 , Carlos Sampaio Duarte became city prefect (mayor) for the term from 2017 to 2020, who ran for the Partido da Mobilização Nacional (PMN).

The legislature rests with a 9-member city council, the vereadores of the Câmara Municipal.

The place is also responsible for the scattered hamlets and rural communes Araguiçaua , Paratu , Base Aérea , Cruzeiro , Piquiá , Calafate , Amapá Grande , Vulcão do Norte , Ramudo , Vista Alegre and Santo Antonio .

Amapá is considered structurally weak and in 2016 received federal grants of 7,763,882.70 reals (around 1.98 million euros) and state grants of 1,755,909.72 reals (around 448,000 euros).

Population development

Source: IBGE (figures for 2019 are only estimates). In 2010, 36.34% of the population were children and adolescents up to the age of 15. In 2017, 86.5% lived in urban areas and 13.5% in extensive rural areas. The city of Amapá is the sixth largest municipality in the state of Amapá. The illiteracy rate in 2010 among adults over the age of 25 was 14.8%.

Ethnic composition

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (as of 2010 with 8069 inhabitants):

group	Share (2010)	annotation
Brancos	1,321	Whites, descendants of Europeans
Pardos	6,394	Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos
Pretus	348	black
Amarelos	4th	Asians
Indigenous people	3	indigenous population

Standard of living

The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ), was at the very low value of 0.391 in 1991, and at the medium-high value of 0.642 in 2010.

The average monthly income per person for 2010 is R $ 406.90  , which corresponds to a value of 104.27 euros in 2018.

traffic

State road BR-156 near Amapá

The state road BR-156 leads through Amapá in a north-south direction , to which two access roads lead from the village ( AP-116 ). Amapá Airport is located to the northwest in Base Aéria, around eight kilometers from the city . Otherwise, coastal shipping serves the supply.

economy

Buffalo and cattle are raised in Amapá, and the following agricultural products are to be mentioned in descending order for 2016: the cultivation of cassava (3,150 tons), bananas (376 tons), pineapples (172 tons) and oranges (153 tons). Sugar cane is not grown. Agriculture accounted for only 15.7% of the urban gross national product in 2014, industry 2.3%. Trade and services made up the largest share at 82%.

Web links

Commons : Amapá  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Governo do Estado do Amapá, Secretaria de Estado do Planejamento: Síntese de informações socioeconômicas do município Amapá. SEPLAN, Amapá 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Amapá> panorama , updated statistical information (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Amapá: Amapá> Panorama. Retrieved September 1, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Carlos Sampaio 33. In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed January 30, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia (Museu Goeldi). t.3: fasc. 1-4 (1900-1902), 1900, pp. 443 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
4. ↑ Amapá climate: average temperature, weather by month, Amapá weather averages. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on January 30, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Unidade de Conservação: Estação ecológica de Maracá Jipioca. In: gov.br. Cadastro Nacional de Unidades de Conservação (CNUC), accessed January 30, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
6. ↑ IBGE: Amapá | História. In: gov.br. Retrieved September 20, 2018 (pt-BF). 
7. ↑ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Divisão Regional do Brasil. 2017, archived from the original on April 6, 2019 ; accessed on September 1, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Governo do Estado do Amapá, Secretaria de Estado do Planejamento: Síntese de informações socioeconômicas do município Amapá. ( Memento of January 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) SEPLAN, Amapá 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: Amapá - AP. Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
10. ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Retrieved on February 5, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, database query, search terms Amapá (AP) and Cor ou raça).