Manacapuru
| Município de Manacapuru Princesinha do Solimões
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| Coordinates | 3 ° 18 ′ S , 60 ° 37 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in the state of Amazonas
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| founding | 16th July 1932 (age 88) | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Amazon | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-AM | ||
| Metropolitan area | Manaus metropolitan area | ||
| height | 60 m | ||
| climate | equatorial, Am | ||
| surface | 7,336.6 km² | ||
| Residents | 85,141 (2010) | ||
| density | 11.6 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 97,377 (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 1302504 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −4 | ||
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| GDP | 1,241,891 thousand R $ 13,027 R $ per person (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.614 (2010) | ||
Manacapuru , officially Município de Manacapuru , was the third largest city in the Brazilian state of Amazonas with over 85,141 inhabitants according to the 2010 census . The population was estimated by the Brazilian statistical office as of July 1, 2019 to grow to 97,377 inhabitants, the area is around 7337 km² (2018) and the population density is 11.6 inhabitants per km², called Manacapuruenses ( manacapuruenses ). It now occupies the fourth position of the 62 municipalities from Amazonas to Itacoatiara . The municipality is part of the metropolitan area of Manaus .
Location and transport links
The city is located 84 kilometers west of the capital Manaus , up the Amazon - where the Amazon above Manaus and the confluence of the Rio Negro in Brazil is called Rio Solimões . An asphalt road through Iranduba , the AM-070 , connects the city with Manaus. First you had to use the São Raimundo car ferry until 2011 to get from there over the Rio Negro, whereas since October 24, 2011 you can drive over the Ponte Rio Negro road bridge .
In the south the area of Manacapuru borders on Manaquiri , in the southwest on Beruri , in the west on Anamã and Caapiranga , in the north on Novo Airão .
The nearest airport, Aeroporto Internacional Eduardo Gomes, is around 70 km away.
climate
The city has a tropical rainforest climate, Af according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 27.3 ° C. The average rainfall is 2309 mm per year.
Economy, culture and leisure
The city lives mainly from brickworks, plantations and fishing. Manacapuru celebrates the founding of the city every July with folkloric shows, street festivals and various attractions. The Lago das Piranhas and the Orla do Miriti beach are also close to the city .
Local politics
City Prefect has been Betanael da Silva Dangelo of the Partido Republicano da Ordem Social (PROS) since the local elections in 2016 for the 2017 to 2020 term of office .
The legislature lies with a city council ( Câmara Municipal ) made up of 17 elected councilors ( vereadores ).
Ethnic composition
Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (status 2000 with 73,695 inhabitants, status 2010 with 85,141 inhabitants): Of these, 59,866 inhabitants lived in urban areas in 2010 and 25,275 in rural and rainforest areas.
| group | Share 2000 |
Share 2010 |
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| Brancos | 16,371 | 13,961 | Whites, descendants of Europeans |
| Pardos | 51,579 | 67,746 | Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos |
| Pretus | 3,874 | 2,668 | black |
| Amarelos | 129 | 426 | Asians |
| Indigenous people | 630 | 340 | indigenous population |
| without specification | 1,113 | - |
A regional dialect is spoken that is called Nortista or Amazofonia .
Average income and standard of living
The monthly average income in 2017 was a factor of 1.9 of the Brazilian minimum wage ( Salário mínimo ) of R $ 880.00 (converted for 2019: around 371 €). The Human Development Index (HDI) is rated low at 0.614 for 2010.
The gross national product per capita in 2016 was around R $ 13,027, the gross national product of the entire municipality R $ 1,241,891,888 (€ 275.4 million).
Sports
Manacapuru has the football club Princesa do Solimões EC, founded in 1971, with the Estádio Olímpico Municipal Gilberto Mestrinho stadium .
Trivia
In the river of the same name, which flows into the Solimões in the north-west of the city, all four pilots came in the air accidents of the Selva Taxi Aéreo (1998) and the Manaus Aerotáxi (2009) in traffic between Manaus and Tefé or Coari (further up on the Solimões) and a total of 32 passengers died.
sons and daughters of the town
- Enoque da Silva Reis (1907–1998), Governor of the Amazon
- Elizabeth Azize (* 1940), Federal MP for the Amazon
Web links
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- pronunciation
- Klaus D. Günther: Manacapuru. In: Amazon Portal. International Affiliate Press, December 10, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e IBGE : Cidades @ Amazonas: Manacapuru - Panorama. Retrieved September 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Amazon . In: Lexikonredaktion of the Bibliographisches Institut (Ed.): Meyers Großes Taschenlexikon . tape 1 . A - Spec . Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-411-01921-2 , pp. 287 .
- Jump up ↑ Climate Manacapuru: Data and graphs graphs for Manacapuru. In: climate-data.org. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Beto Dangelo 90 , Eleições 2016 website. Retrieved May 21, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Accessed on 16 September 2019 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Manacapuru (AM) and Cor ou raça).
