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	Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amazonas is the largest state of Brazil in area, located in the northern part of the country.
		Amazonas' economy was once reliant almost entirely upon rubber; today it has wide and varied industries, including the farming of cassava, oranges, and other cultures.
		What is today Amazonas state was first taken control of after the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which essentially divided the planet (excluding, of course, Europe) between the Spanish and the Portuguese, territories west of (approximately) 46° 37' W beloning to Spain, those east of that latitude, to Portugal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazonas,_Brazil (682 words)

	Encyclopedia: Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Venezuela was the site of one of the first permanent Spanish settlements in South America in 1522, and most of the territory eventually became part of the viceroyalty of New Granada.
		Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the north-easternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico BolÃvar at 5,007 m.
		Venezuela is also a reference for their world famous baseball players, such as Luis Aparicio, David ConcepciÃ³n, Oswaldo GuillÃ©n, AndrÃ©s Galarraga, Omar Vizquel, Luis Sojo, and Johan Santana, winner of the Cy Young Award in 2004.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Venezuela (9731 words)

	Definition of Venezuela - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The name "Venezuela" is believed to have originated with the cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, when in 1499 led a naval exploration of the noroccidental coast (known today as the Gulf of Venezuela), along with Alonso de Ojeda.
		Venezuela became, after the revolutionary war, along with Colombia and Ecuador part of the Republic of Gran Colombia (República de Gran Colombia) until 1830, when the country separated and became a sovereign republic.
		Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the northeasternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico Bolívar at 5,007 m.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Venezuela (2115 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Amazonas (Venezuela)
		Amazonas (Venezuela), territory forming the southernmost part of Venezuela.
		Amazonas (state, Brazil), largest state of Brazil, with an area of 1,577,820 sq km (609,200 sq mi).
		Amazonas has an area of 39,249 sq km (15,154 sq mi) and is bordered by Ecuador on the...
	encarta.msn.com /Amazonas_(Venezuela).html (127 words)

	Global Forest Watch - Venezuela - Overview
		Venezuela has a land area of approximately 890,000 square kilometers, approximately half of which is forested.
		Venezuela’s forests provide an array of economic, social, and ecological services that are of vital importance to the nation’s economy and culture.
		Venezuela also has tremendous biodiversity, ranking in the top twenty in the world in terms of birds, amphibians, and plants.
	www.globalforestwatch.org /english/venezuela (834 words)

	Ethnologue: Brazil
		Amazonas near the Solimões, between the Tefé and Caiçara rivers, and along the Brazilian part of the Rio Içá.
		Amazonas, along the headwaters of the tributaries of the Curuçá, Ipixuna, and Javarí, near the Peru border.
		Amazonas, on a tributary of the Vaupés River.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Braz.html (5094 words)

	Venezuela travel information by Angel-Eco Tours
		The country of Venezuela is situated at the far northeastern corner of the continent of South America.
		The Amazonas' western region features tropical rainforests and is home to a variety of flora including lianas, strangler figs, bromeliads, tree ferns, orchids, lichens and mosses.
		Eastern Amazonas is dominated by the forested mountains of the Sierranía La Neblina.
	www.angel-ecotours.com /venezuela.html (1044 words)

	Venezuela States
		Venezuela is divided into 23 estados (states), one dependencias federales (federal dependencies), and one distrito capital (capital district).
		As related to the pre-1819 divisions, Apure department corresponded roughly to Barinas province; Orinoco department to the provinces of Barcelona, Cumaná, Guayana, and Margarita; Venezuela department to Caracas province, and Zulia department to the provinces of Coro, Maracaibo, Mérida, and Trujillo.
		According to Agustin Codazzi's Atlas fisico y politico de la Republica de Venezuela (1840), the populations and areas of the thirteen provinces were as follows.
	www.statoids.com /uve.html (2411 words)

	ipedia.com: Amazonas State (Venezuela) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For other subnational entities called "Amazonas", see Amazonas.
		Estado Amazonas is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided.
		Amazonas State covers a total surface area of 180,145 km² and, in 1997, had an estimated population of 96,970.
	www.ipedia.com /amazonas_state__venezuela_.html (113 words)

	Real Estate in Brazil - Amazonas, Brazil
		Amazonas is home to the highest mountain in Brazil;
		Amazonas' economy was once reliant almost entirely upon rubber; today it has wide and varied industries, including the farming of cassava,
		British and Dutch plantations in South-East Asia were producing cheaper, superior quality rubber, and by 1900 the Amazonas state had fallen into serious economic decline because of this.
	www.realestateinbrazil.com /amazonas (538 words)

	Ethnologue report for Venezuela
		Amazonas, between the Curipaco and the Guarequena, along the Colombian border.
		Bolivar State and Amazonas, near the Brazilian border on the mid-Paragua, Caura, Erebato, upper Ventuari, upper Auaris, Matacuni, Cuntinano, Padamo, and Cunucunuma rivers.
		A northern group is in Bolivar Division on the Kaima River, a tributary of the Cuchivero River; an isolated southern group is in Amazonas on the Iguana, a tributary of the Asita River, and on the Parucito, a tributary of the Manapiare River.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Venezuela (710 words)

	Amazonas: Venezuela’s Forgotten State, part I
		In Venezuela, if the GN catches you with the gold, you are sure to lose it.” The Brazilian does not see a future for him in this village anymore.
		“Venezuela is the number one ally of the social movements”.
		Venezuela's Foreign Minister denounces at OAS the frequent negative statements by U.S. officials against President Chavez
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1516 (3019 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Venezuela, November 2004
		Venezuela is currently one of the most accessible countries of South America and holds a good proportion of the region's avifauna.
		Venezuela is widely recognised as an ideal country in which to gain an introduction to the diverse and colourful birdlife of the South American continent, 'The Bird Continent'.
		Air Venezuela flight was on time and in no time at all we had left the coast behind and were soaring over the stunning Venezuelan landscape.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/venezuela/venez7/venez-nov-04.htm (7425 words)

	Amazonas State (Venezuela) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Antecedents - Amazonas State, second in extension of the Republic, is located on the South end of Venezuela and limits with Bolívar State to the North; Federative Republic of Brazil to the South and East and Republic of Colombia to the West.
		The Amazonas State is located to the South of Venezuela and is the second in extension of the Republic.
		The cimier is a gold (yellow) pennant with the war cry: "HONOR Y LEALTAD" (Honor and Loyalty) written in silvered letters, reminding the integrity and the Amazonensians obedience to duty and law in a democratic system of government.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ve-z.html (970 words)

	Birding trip report Venezuela 1997 (incl. Junglaven)
		In Macuto, East of the Maiquetia airport, we had the hotel Tojamar proposed and arranged by the Audubon of Venezuela, and the next morning we made a short visit to the Via Galipan on the mountain side of Macuto.
		The flight from Caracas to Puerto Ayacucho (Amazonas) has an interesting stop at San Fernando de Apure (might be used as stopover for Llanos birds; this flight costs you two coupons anyway).
		The meals were good (often fish fresh from the lake), and Lorenzo often shared our table, with his amazing stories about Amazonas and his pilot career, and his play with the pet macaw (photo; it could fly and actually started nesting with a wild mate nearby).
	home.tiscali.nl /~jvanderw/ven97/venrep97.html (1565 words)

	Mussels of Venezuela - Diplodon flucki
		The holotype, USNM 521998, was collected from the Orinoco River above Mundapo, Venezuela, and measures: Length, 52.3 mm., height 28.3 mm., diameter, 22.6 mm.
		It is known only from a short stretch of the Orinoco River proper in Amazonas, Venezuela.
		This is a remote part of Venezuela and very little mollusk collecting has been done in this part of the world.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /cbd/collections/mollusk_links/SA/D_flucki.html (450 words)

	Luke's South American Diary - March 1996
		However these were not like the mountains of the Coastal Range I had passed through early that morning, but isolated monolithic outcrops of granite, sometimes smooth domes of brown, fl or purple, or sometimes just precarious heaps of huge boulders, apparently artfully composed, with palms and other tropical plants arranged in strategic places.
		About a third of the inhabitants of Amazonas live in the unexciting provincial town of Puerto Ayacucho, leaving the other 20,000 or so (from some 20 different Indian tribes) to inhabit the rest of an area almost the size of England and Scotland combined, consisting mainly of thick tropical rain-forest.
		This was to be my only real contact with the rain-forest of the Amazonas (on this trip at any rate), but I was content, and consoled myself that if a jaguar was to savage me, it would be an awful long time before anyone found me, which made me feel sufficiently intrepid.
	www.lukemastin.com /diary/mar96.html (3427 words)

	Amazonas, Venezuela's Forgotten State, Part II
		The state of Amazonas in the south of Venezuela is the most unexplored region of the country.
		This is the second of two parts of Amazonas stories, about a unique water channel, the famous Yanomami people and modern-day politics.
		He was the first one to find out that the river basins of the Orinoco and the Amazonas, two of the world’s largest rivers, are connected by a water channel: the Casiquiare, which is also called the bifurcation.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1528 (2535 words)

	Domestication and commercialization of non-timber forest products in agroforestry systems - Indigenous enterprise for ...
		All indigenous peoples within Amazonas State have the right to hunt, fish and collect wild products, including timber, for their personal consumption; thus they have the right to continue their traditional lifestyles.
		Very few indigenous villages within Amazonas State have full legal title to their lands; however, some villages have been given a collective title for the right to use and enjoy the land, according to traditional customs.
		The indigenous peoples in Amazonas State are able to sell wild fruits because of their right to harvest, their access to transport, and the demand for the fruit from urban inhabitants; however, the availability of wild fruit trees has been declining.
	www.fao.org /docrep/w3735e/w3735e15.htm (3418 words)

	US Sees Terrorist Risk on Venezuela-Colombia Border
		CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - The U.S. government is warning its citizens to avoid traveling to Venezuela's western border with Colombia because of the risk of kidnapping by Colombian "terrorist groups," the U.S. Embassy in Caracas said on Tuesday.
		A State Department travel advisory for Venezuela said the risk was particularly high in the southern Venezuelan jungle state of Amazonas, where the department had received "credible information that Colombian terrorist groups are increasingly targeting U.S. citizens" for kidnapping.
		Venezuela has reinforced military patrols and garrisons along its 1,380-mile western border following the renewal of hostilities last month between the Colombian government and the Marxist guerrillas of the FARC.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/654303/posts (876 words)

	Amazonas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amazonas is the name of five subnational entities in various (A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama) South American nations.
		(additional info and facts about Amazonas Department) Amazonas Department, (A republic in northwestern South America; the major legal crop is coffee but cocaine is also a major export) Colombia
		(additional info and facts about Amazonas Region) Amazonas Region, (A republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries) Peru
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amazonas.htm (138 words)

	VENEZUELA -AMAZONAS
		There are very few roads in Amazonas and none at all in the South, the river and it's network of tributaries being the highway in these parts.
		Nearby is the second highest waterfall in Venezuela, the 2,200ft Yutajé falls.
		One pet of special interest we saw in an indian village was a yellow crowned amazon (Amazonas ochrocephala ochrocephala) (picture48K) almost a thousand miles outside the range specified in "Forshaws".
	freespace.virgin.net /susan.armitage/VENPAR2.HTM (2027 words)

	The next passing of the new law of the Political-Territorial Division of the Amazonas State
		The next passing of the new law of the Political-Territorial Division of the Amazonas State, Venezuela, by the Legislative Assembly
		After the sentence, the Legislative Assembly utilized different mechanisms to evade what was established by the Court and in the month of November of 1997 it approved the first discussions of a law project that does not take into account the Indigenous proposal.
		-That the rights of the Indigenous communities be respected in the new law of Political-Territorial Division of the state of Amazonas as agreed to by the Supreme Court of Justice.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/183.html (596 words)

	Venezuela Llanos
		The Llanos are Venezuela's greatest repository of wildlife.
		Hato Piñero, situated in the central llanos (plains) of Venezuela, is a paradise triangle spanning close to 140,000 acres bordered by three rivers and a range of mountains, where hundreds of species of wild animals run free.
		Hato Piñero represents the first successful undertaking in Venezuela which combines private conservation and biological research initiatives with an ecotourism enterprise.
	www.amazonadventures.com /llanos.htm (1274 words)

	The contemporary political history of Native Americans in Venezuela
		Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.
		Because of the nullification of the law of the Political-Territorial Division of Amazonas, the Legislative Assembly moved to refuse the rights of the Indigenous communities that make up for more than 50% of the total population of Amazonas.
		A recent historic victory by Venezuela's indigenous peoples, the direct selection of three representatives to sit on a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the constitution, is in jeopardy of being distorted by
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/index-mmb.html (301 words)

	Pritzker Laboratory - Alumni
		The highland mountains of my native Venezuela (tepuis) are considered an important region of endemism, known as the Pantepui region.
		In this study, I will address the relationships of the avifauna of the tepui highlands of southern Venezuela with such areas as the South American Andes and the northern cordilleras of Venezuela.
		Large-scale shrimp farming in coastal wetlands of Venezuela, South America: causes and consequences of land-use conflicts.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /research_collections/pritzker_lab/pritzker/people/alumni_perez.html (697 words)

	Vaccinium puberulum description
		Terrestrial shrub to small tree, to 4 m tall, found in savannas, at 100-2600 m; widespread in Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas), Guyana, and Guayanan Brazil.
		Widespread in Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas), Guyana, and N Guayanan Brazil.
		Widespread in Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas) and Guyana.
	www.nybg.org /bsci/res/lut2/vaccinium_puberulum.html (384 words)

	Publications Surumoni-Project
		Anhuf, D.; Rollenbeck, R. (2001): Canopy structure of the Surumoni Rain Forest (Venezuela) and its influence on microclimate.
		Anhuf, D.; Winkler H. (1999): Geographical and ecological settings of the Surumoni-Crane-Project (Upper Orinoco, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela).
		Carlsen, M. (2000): Structure and diversity of the vascular epiphyte community in the overstory of a tropical rain forest in Surumoni, Amazonas State, Venezuela.
	www.oeaw.ac.at /klivv/surumoni/Suru_pub.html (3157 words)

	Native American Indian Cultures - the Piaroa Indians
		Venezuela: South bank of the Orinoco River, inland from the Paguasa River to Manipiari, Amazonas (Map).
		The Piaroa (Pee-ah-row-ah) Tribe lives in the Amazon rain forest of Venezuela.
		Their mode of transportation is by the bongo, a form of dugout canoe with which they navigate the tributaries of the Amazon.
	indian-cultures.com /Cultures/piaroa.html (599 words)

	Geographic distribution - Preliminary Checklist of the Mammals of the Guiana Shield
		Among the species of mammals known from the Guiana Shield, 250 (91%) have been recorded in Venezuela (Amazonas with 209, Bolívar with 227, and Delta Amacuro with 113), 218 (79%) in Guyana, 185 (67%) in Surinam, and 183 (67%) in French Guiana.
		Of the political units within Venezuela, Delta Amacuro has 62% of the mammal species recorded in the next smallest and less diverse unit (French Guiana).
		In addition to its relatively small size (less than half the area of French Guiana), Delta Amacuro is composed of predominately semi-inundated ecosystems (mangroves, marsh forests, palm swamps, and grasslands), which are marginal habitat for many species.
	www.mnh.si.edu /biodiversity/bdg/shieldmammals/geography.html (742 words)

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