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	Embassy of Brazil - Ottawa
		Situated in the heart of the greatest forest in the world, the State of Amazonas is more than 1.5 million km2 in area, equivalent to 18% of the total area of Brazil (8.5 million km2).
		The line of the Equator passes through the state, and the climate is predominantly equatorial, with average temperatures between 24º and 26º C and plentiful rainfall throughout the year.
		The first produces an edible nut which is widely used in Brazilian cooking; the second secretes a sap from which rubber is made; and the third produces a fruit which is used as a stimulant and which is the basis of a soft drink consumed throughout Brazil.
	www.brasembottawa.org /en/travel_tourism/brazilguide/north/amazonas (927 words)

	Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		By the late 1800s, the Brazilian rubber monopoly was slowly dying, as 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazonas,_Brazil (725 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Amazonas (Brazilian state)
		Amazonas' economy was once reliant almost entirely upon salt; today it has wide and varied industries, including the farming of cassava, oranges, and other agricultural products.
		What is today Amazonas state was first taken control of after the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which essentially divided the planet (excluding Europe) between the Spanish and the Portuguese, territories west of (approximately) 46° 37' W belonging to Spain, those east of that longitude, to Portugal.
		By the late 1800s, the Brazilian rubber monopoly was slowly dying, as 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.reference.com /browse/wiki/Amazonas_State,_Brazil (737 words)

	Brazilian Federal District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before the transfer, the Brazilian Federal District used to be the municipality of Rio de Janeiro.
		After the transfer, the municipality of Rio de Janeiro became the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara), which existed from 1960 until 1975 when both the State of Guanabara and the State of Rio de Janeiro merged, to be named the state of Rio de Janeiro.
		Originally, the majority of the population consisted of local workers who built the capital from nothing (called "Candangos") and federal government employees who were transferred to the new capital, Brasília.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_Federal_District (401 words)

	Amazonas (state Brazil) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amazonas (state, Brazil), largest state of Brazil, with an area of 1,577,820 sq km (609,200 sq mi).
		Tapajós, river in central Brazil, affluent of the Amazon River, formed at the border of the states of Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso by the...
		Manaus, formerly Manáos, city in northwestern Brazil, capital of Amazonas State, a port on the Negro River (near its confluence with the Amazon...
	encarta.msn.com /Amazonas_(state_Brazil).html (166 words)

	Amazonas travel guide - Wikitravel
		Amazonas is a state in the North of Brazil.
		Amazonas' territory is 98% covered by the rain forest and is named after the Amazon River.
		In Amazonas, the exuberance of the tropical rain forest, associated with hot and humid climate, are responsible for the largest biodiversity on Earth.
	wikitravel.org /en/Amazonas_(Brazil) (834 words)

	Jungletrekker.com
		Amazonas is the largest of Brazil’s States and contains the best-preserved tropical forest ecosystem of the planet, Amazônia.
		Among the various protected areas of Amazonas, is the Janauarí Ecological Park, a combination of firm land, flooded forests, and marshes, where canoe trips can be taken to see the giant water lilies, up to 6 feet in diameter, and other types of flora and fauna.
		Amazonas is home to the Jaú National Park, the largest forest reserve in South America, nearby Anavilhanas, the largest river archipelago in the world.
	www.dtvisions.com /jungletrekker/english/about_amazonas.html (265 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Brazil
		Considering that the Brazilian State is a politically decentralized federation of states, the Federal Constitution confers on the states in the federation the capacity for self-organization.
		The Brazilian State considers the perpetuation of these economic and social disparities between racial groups in itself an indirect sign of discrimination which, as such, must be combated since it hinders the enjoyment of the right to equality of opportunity.
		Brazilian legislation regulates the form of inheritance concerning the estate of foreigners, stipulating that Brazilian law shall prevail with regard to the property they possess in the country to the benefit of the Brazilian spouse or offspring, whenever it may prove more favourable to them than the personal law of the de cujus.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/0/c021800a90432bc38025655200447629?Opendocument (14840 words)

	HRW: Behind Bars in Brazil (Summary)
		In states where the prison authorities are able to limit the transfer of additional inmates from lockups to the prisons, the police end up being left in charge of a significant proportion of the inmate population.
		State prison and police authorities should train police and guards regarding Brazilian and international norms mandating the humane treatment of prisoners and should caution them that officers engaging in unauthorized disciplinary sanctions, corrupt practices, or other abuses will be punished accordingly.
		State prison authorities should establish rational systems of classification in the prisons, so that nonviolent prisoners are separated from their more dangerous fellows and, as much as possible, placed in appropriate minimum security facilities.
	www.hrw.org /reports98/brazil/Brazil-02.htm (3255 words)

	That is Brazil - State of Amazonas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amazonas is the largest brazilian state, having as Capital Manaus, main Gate of Entrance for the North Area.
		The State of Amazonas is at the same time the lowest and the highest State of Brazil.
		The totality of the State is almost compressed in the Amazon plain, and 97% are in the called "firm" lands and 3% in the "várzeas".
	www.meubrasil.inf.br /Pages/E-AM.htm (344 words)

	States of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The states of Brazil (or estados do Brasil) comprise 26 federal states and the Distrito Federal (the Brazilian Federal District), which contains the capital city, Brasília.
		The Federal District is encompassed by the state of Goiás.
		Rank of Brazilian States by: Area - Population - Population Density
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/States_of_Brazil (100 words)

	Documento sin título
		According to the Brazilian census, 44% of the Brazilian population is of afro-descendents13.
		Alyne died on 16/11/2002 in the Hospital of Posse, in Belford Roxo municipality, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
		An example of the Brazilian state’s neglect in relation to the situation of maternal mortality is the fact that only 14 of these Committees are active, among the 24 initially established in the country.
	www.cladem.org /english/regional/monitoreo_convenios/descMMbrasili.asp (2508 words)

	Minas Gerais -
		This Brazilian state is situated between 14º13'58' ' north latitude and 22º54'00' ' south latitude and between 39º51'32' ' and 51º02'35' ' longitude west of Greenwich.
		It is one of the most religious states, with a big proportion of staunch Roman Catholics and a burgeoning Evangelical and neo-Pentecostal population, with pockets of African magic religions.
		The flag of the state of Minas Gerais is the oldest one adopted in Brazil that was devised by Brazilians.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Minas_Gerais (2164 words)

	Brazilian beef production expected to rise
		Except for the state of Santa Catarina, which is not a beef producing state but is a main pork and poultry producer, Brazilian beef from other major states is not allowed to be exported to Russia.
		The ban is due to the outbreak of FMD in the state of Amazonas, but has mushroomed into an ongoing political dispute between the two nations.
		Pork exports are expected to increase by 3 percent in 2005, and set another record, despite the problems of related the appreciation of the Brazilian currency and the Russian ban on Brazilian meat in general.
	www.wlj.net /editorial/022105_brazilian_beef_prod_rise.asp (522 words)

	Environment News Service (ENS)
		An agricultural engineer and son of a rubber tapper, Casara has been chief of IBAMA in the Brazilian state of Amazonas for the past six years and has 20 years of experience in the environmental area.
		Brazilian environmental groups are cautiously hopeful about the new IBAMA chief because of his extensive experience in the field, in contrast to the political and bureaucratic nature of previous heads of IBAMA.
		Confluence of the Tapaua and Purus Rivers in the Brazilian state of Amazonas
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2001/2001-01-23-01.asp (579 words)

	Amazonas (Brazil)
		Arthur Luponi, in "The Flags of the States of Brazil: Amazonas," Flag Bulletin IX:129-133 (Fall 1970), notes that the flag is said to have been invented by Colonel José Cardoso Ramalho Júnior, the vice-governor at the time.
		By the time state flags were again permitted in 1946, the state had lost two municipalities to the new territories that would later become the states of Rondônia and Roraima.
		The arms of the state are inscribed in an imaginary ellipse 70 x 60 cm on the larger size flag and 30 x 25 cm on the smaller.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/br-am.html (1150 words)

	Brazil's North
		Acre is a state in western Brazil, bordered by Peru on the west and south and Bolivia on the east.
		The limits of Tocantins are: northern - the Brazilian State of Maranhão; eastern - the Brazilian State of Maranhão, Piaui, Bahia; southern - the Brazilian State of Goiás; western - the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso and Pará.
		The State of Tocantins is the 9th Brazilian state as far as its territory is concerned.
	psg.com /~walter/no.html (1768 words)

	Embassy of Brazil - Ottawa
		In the early years of the twentieth century the city of Manaus, capital of Amazonas, became very wealthy and the most important cultural center in the Northern Region of Brazil.
		A reflection of this period of opulence is to be found in the monuments of Manaus, such as the Amazonas Theatre, opened in 1896.
		In 1965 it was declared part of the Brazilian national heritage and was reopened in 1996 after complete restoration.
	www.brasembottawa.org /en/travel_tourism/brazilguide/north/amazonas/manaus.html (381 words)

	MM September 1997
		These companies are estimated to have already bought at least 1.5 million hectares of forest lands in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, and Brazilian environmental organizations project the companies are planning to buy and log another 7.5 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse areas on earth.
		With logging concessions amounting to 1.5 million hectares, it is one of the largest timber companies operating in the Malaysian state, where cut-and-run logging is expected to exhaust the primary rainforest by the turn of the century.
		"Besides the low levels of logging, Amazonas state is extremely rich in precious woods, has proportionally one of the lowest populations among Brazilian states and affords plenty of legal incentives to the logging industry," says economist Ronald Bonfim, an economic advisor to the Amazonas State Federation of Industries.
	www.multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/mm0997.06.html (2741 words)

	Preserving the Amazon Forest--Amazon Ecological Research Center (AERC), Amazonas State, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A saying among the indigenous people states, "Those who butcher the forest are destroying the 'house of life.'" It was to protect this "house of life" that in 1992 SGI-Brazil established the Amazon Ecological Research Center (AERC) in the middle reaches of the Amazon, on the outskirts of Manaus in Amazonas State.
		The Amazonas governor is quoted as saying that the volunteerism and support of local residents is crucial for preserving the environment and that it is important to be educated about environmental issues to learn how to protect the environment.
		Brazilian poet Thiago de Mello, honorary president of the center, read a message from Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who expressed hopes that the Ikeda Laboratory will serve as a model for spearheading the study of sustainable development, an urgent issue for Brazilian society.
	www.sokagakkai.info /html3/viewpoint3/today3/amazon3.html (1375 words)

	Acre State Brazil: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maranh>o is arguably Brazils poorest state, and Sao Paulo is unarguably...prosperity of the Southeast.
		...predating the existence of the Brazilian state, the return to civilian rule...postindependence dispensation of the Brazilian nation-state, not least as it affected the...colonial administration, the Brazilian state remained a single political...
		...extractive reserves in the state of Rondonia in western Brazil, identifying the major actors and institutions and the...grassroots movement emerged during the 1970s in the Amazonian state of Acre to resist displacement from the forest areas by the rapidly...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/acre-state-brazil.jsp?l=A&p=1 (1576 words)

	Real Estate in Brazil - Amazonas, Brazil
		Amazonas' economy was once reliant almost entirely upon rubber; today it has wide and varied industries, including the farming of cassava,
		The state met an era of splendour in the 1850s, at the peak of
		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)

	WWF \| Amazon \| Conservation Results \| Amazonas Protected Areas
		The Brazilian State of Amazonas, by far the largest state in the Brazilian Amazon with some of its most intact forest and diverse landscapes, announced recently the designation of a mosaic of protected areas covering 7.5 million acres in the southern part of the state.
		The measure is intended to protect viable portions of the biological diversity of the region, and at the same time it will help contain the unregulated advance of the agricultural frontier and the illegal invasion of public land in the region, helping to bring under control the deforestation that would otherwise occur.
		According to Eduardo Braga, governor of Amazonas State, the creation of these protected areas "is a commitment by the state to the conservation of biodiversity and the improvement of the quality of life of our people who depend on the forest."
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/amazon/results/amazonas.cfm?enews=enews0105 (485 words)

	MM September 1997
		These companies are estimated to have already bought at least 1.5 million hectares of forest lands in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, and Brazilian environmental organizations project the companies are planning to buy and log another 7.5 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse areas on earth.
		With logging concessions amounting to 1.5 million hectares, it is one of the largest timber companies operating in the Malaysian state, where cut-and-run logging is expected to exhaust the primary rainforest by the turn of the century.
		Amazonas is fast emerging as the gateway to Brazil for the international logging industry.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/mm0997.06.html (2741 words)

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