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	Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neighboring states are (from north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Acre.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazonas_State,_Brazil (775 words)

	The Brazil Nut
		Brazil nuts are cultivated in tropical botanical gardens far outside its native range, and minor plantations have been established in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia (Müller, 1981) and Ghana in Africa (D.K. Abbiw, pers.
		The flowers of the Brazil nut are zygomorphic, with an androecium that is prolonged on one side into a hood that arches over and is tightly appressed to the summit of the ovary.
		Brazil nuts are harvested almost entirely from wild trees during a five to six month period in the rainy season.
	www.nybg.org /bsci/braznut/BrazilNut.html (3303 words)

	Portal Oficial do Governo do Estado do Amazonas
		The State of Amazonas has several challenges, including reduction of poverty and control of the threat of uncontrolled expansion of the agricultural and logging frontier, especially in the southern part of the State.
		Amazonas State is planning to create new state forests, that will provide the basis for the sustainable growth of forest industries.
		The State of Amazonas is thus open to partnerships with socially responsible governments, investors, multilateral organizations, evironmental and research institutions.
	www.sds.am.gov.br /programas_02.php?cod=1266 (1370 words)

	Brazil
		Brazil is a constitutional federal republic composed of 26 states and the Federal District.
		They have the further right to appeal state court decisions to both the federal Supreme Court on constitutional grounds and to the federal Superior Court to contest whether a decision was consistent with the decision of a court in another state or infringed on federal law.
		Federal and state officials in many cases actively solicited the aid and cooperation of NGOs in addressing human rights problems; however, human rights monitors occasionally were threatened and harassed for their efforts to identify and take action against human rights abusers, especially members of the state police forces.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27888.htm (18270 words)

	Regional Policy in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Brazil tried to avoid the consequences of inflation by creating an indexing program that would make the nominal amount paid back on a loan equal to the real value that would have to have been paid back if there had been no inflation.
		The states of the northeast generally have per capita income that are one half of the national average.
		Regional policy in Brazil usually has an element of opening up frontiers, not only as a safety valve for the problems of the poorer areas but also as a means of establishing Brazilian control over territory that is only nominally Brazilian.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/brazil2.htm (332 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Amazonas
		It flows generally northeast in a meandering course, across Acre and Amazonas states, NW Brazil, to the Amazon River.
		Amazonas Takes Saft's Li-ion to GEO Service; In a Latin American First, Saft's Lithium-ion Batteries are Now Operating in a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) on Hispasat's Amazonas Telecommunications and Broadcast Satellite Manufactured by EADS Astrium.
		Joao Amazonas president of honor of Communist Party of Brazil dead at 90.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Amazonas (644 words)

	BRAZIL
		The fifth, Maranhão, is the westernmost state in Brazil's northeast region and borders the state of Pará;.
		Some states place these administrative functions within their secretariats of social welfare, often in government agencies that are known as "foundations." For example, in Maranhão the Foundation of the Child and the Adolescent (Fundação da Criança e do Adolescente) is a branch of the Social Development Directorate (Gerência de Desenvolvimento Social).
		Brazil's first report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child was due in October 1992 and its second was due in October 1997.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/brazil/Brazil0403-02.htm (4132 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 name "Amazonas" was given to the Amazon River by early Spanish explorers, who fought skirmishes with female Amerindian warriors that they named after the fierce mounted female warriors in Greek mythology.
		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.
	realestateinbrazil.com /amazonas (538 words)

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		Brazil's vast territory covers a great variety of land and climate, for although Brazil is mainly in the tropics (it is crossed by the equator in the north and by the Tropic of Capricorn in the south), the southern part of the great central upland is cool and yields the produce of temperate lands.
		In the east and southeast is the heavily populated region of Brazil—the states that in the 19th and 20th cent.
		Brazil drew little benefit from either; far more important were the rise of postwar discontent in the military and beginnings of the large-scale European immigration that was to make SE Brazil the economic heart of the nation.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/world/countries/brazil.html?nav=el (3766 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Americas - BRAZIL
		In several states, large-scale rioting occurred in prisons and juvenile detention centres, primarily as a result of chronic problems in the penal system and cruel, inhuman or degrading prison conditions.
		In a state which already held over 40 per cent of the national prison population, 800 extra detainees a month had to be absorbed by the system.
		In the south of Pará state, which continued to be a focus of extreme land-related violence, slave labour and impunity, at least nine land activists were killed.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/amr/brazil!Open (2291 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Amazon drought emergency widens
		Brazil's military has been distributing supplies and medicine to tens of thousands of people stranded by the dramatic drop in water levels.
		A state of emergency has been declared in all 61 municipalities of Brazil's Amazonas state as the drought has started affecting towns and cities further downstream, reports the BBC's Tom Gibb in Sao Paolo.
		Brazil's armed forces have been delivering water, food and medical supplies to communities isolated by the worst drought in the Amazon for decades.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4344310.stm (293 words)

	WWF - US$1 million for Amazon protected areas
		Amazonas state covers 1.5 million km2 and includes 13 different ecoregions of the Amazon biome.
		Through a sustainable development policy, the Amazonas state government is playing an important role in the promotion of responsible use of natural resources and biodiversity conservation in the Brazilian Amazon.
		It confirms the commitment of the Amazonas State government to the ARPA Programme, a Brazilian federal government initiative which is technically and financially supported by WWF and the World Bank, among other organizations.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=14870 (395 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Consequently the state of Amazonas is a superb area to visit for birders and naturalists alike, that’s still amazingly a very well kept secret.
		Amazonas also holds much excitement for those more adventurous birders as the state still holds huge areas of unexplored territory and this is one of the reasons that today still new bird species are being discovered and others re-discovered here.
		It lies in the Northern Region of Brazil, is the largest state in the country and possesses some of the greatest variety in the world in terms of plants and animals...
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/america_south/brazil_amazonas.html (2854 words)

	Discover Brazilian Amazon Rainforest in Amazonas/Manaus by Viverde Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amazonas by Viverde locating in Manaus has a very close partnership with most important jungle lodges of nature base or ecotourism base in rainforest of Amazonas State of Brazil.
		Amazonas by Viverde prepares packages in full compliance with client personal wishes and demands.
		Our philosophy is based in handling ecotourism with sincerity and highest quality level to the benefit of the client and the inhabitants of the State of Amazonas.
	www.amazonastravel.com.br (293 words)

	Amazonas, Brazil
		Amazonas in the most northerly state in Brazil and also, with its area of over 1.5 million sq.km/0.6 million sq.mi, the largest, though with the lowest population density.
		It is bordered on the east by Pará; state and on the west by Colombia and Peru.
		Its most important economic center is the river port of Manaus, its capital, where, to promote the development of the economy, a free trade zone has been established.
	www.planetware.com /brazil/amazonas-bra-am-a.htm (104 words)

	From:
		With this in mind, Greenpeace sent an expedition to Amazonas State from May 7 to 31, 1999 to document the transport of illegally cut logs from isolated areas in the vicinity of the Purus River, to the City of Manaus, one of the two large log-handling facilities in Amazonas State.
		The Government of Brazil estimates that 80% of the logs removed from the Amazon basin are illegally cut, transported and sold.
		It is, sadly, common knowledge in Amazonas State that agents and log brokers not only operate with impunity, but also acquire logging concessions or purchase land outright, in order to draw up management plans, their only purpose being to clear or "launder" illegally cut logs.
	archive.greenpeace.org /politics/cites/9906plants.html (1370 words)

	Noonsite: Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is this Carnival which brings many sailors to Brazil, those who arrive from the north sailing for Salvador in Bahia, while those coming from the south have the opportunity to see the greatest show of them all in Rio de Janeiro.
		The River Amazon also has an appeal for some cruising sailors and it can be navigated for well over one thousand miles giving the opportunity to see some of the interior of this huge country.
		For many sailors the first taste of Brazil lies 250 miles offshore on the island of Fernando de Noronha, while another Brazilian outpost in the Atlantic is better avoided, the St Peter and St Paul rocks near the equator, where landing is only possible in the calmest of weathers.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/Brazil (537 words)

	This Land is Our Land, Brazil Tells Squatters
		The problem is worst in Brazil's Amazonas state, where some 55 million hectares of a total 157 million hectares is under suspicion.
		In the southeastern state of Parana, resides one of Brazil's most prolific land squatters Carlos Medeiros, whose name is registered to land covering an area the size of Portugal and Belgium.
		Corruption in local notary offices, lack of coordination between Brazil's three levels of government and title claims dating back prior to the country's independence from Portugal in 1822 have further hindered the investigation.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2001/2001-01-11-10.asp (612 words)

	Oropouche Virus, Southeast Brazil \| CDC EID
		In Brazil, OROV was initially described in 1960, when it was isolated from a sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) captured near a forest area during the construction of the Belém-Brasilia highway, and from a pool of Ochlerotatus serratus mosquitoes captured nearby (4).
		From 1961 to 1980, in Brazil, OROV was reported in the northern state of Pará, where the most important epidemics occurred in Belém, and other regions of the state; hundred of thousands of persons were affected.
		From 1980 to 2004, OROV spread to 5 other northern Brazilian states (Amazonas, Amapá, Acre, Rondônia, and Tocantins) and 1 state in the northeast (Maranhão), indicating, in a short period of time, a dangerous epidemic potential (Table) (5,6).
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol11no10/05-0464.htm (1859 words)

	Preserving the Amazon Forest--Amazon Ecological Research Center (AERC), Amazonas State, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		A clay pot and burial jar, 74 and 64 centimeters in diameter, respectively, are thought to have been used in ceremonial rites for an early Amazonian ruler.
	www.sokagakkai.info /html3/viewpoint3/today3/amazon3.html (1375 words)

	Supplier: M08512 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We are a travel agency specialized in Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
		We believed and still believe that the solution to the development of the Amazonas State is not only the Industrial District and industrial activity, which depends mostly on incentives and politics, but mainly trough a rational way of exploring the amazon rain forest by research, agriculture, fishing and specially tourism.
		Today we have a son and a daughter (both "Amazonenses", which means born in Amazonas State) and caring for their future, we have established a new philosophy in life which pledge for the preservation of the Amazon Ecosystem.
	www.infohub.com /travel_company/8512.html (521 words)

	Amazonas, Brazilian state, in rain forest - travel information
		Amazonas is the biggest Brazilian State; Amazonas alone is bigger than most countries in the world.
		Do not confuse the State of Amazonas with the river Amazonas (which cuts through other States of Brazil and other countries).
		Also, do not confuse the State with a region called Amazônia (in Portuguese) or Amazonia (in Spanish); Amazônia comprehends all the area covered by the Amazon rain forest (Brazilians refer to the forest as "a Amazônia").
	www.v-brazil.com /tourism/amazonas (108 words)

	Brazil nut — FactMonster.com
		Brazil nut, common name for the Lecythidaceae, a family of tropical trees.
		The latter is found chiefly in Brazil along the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, but extensive groves have also been planted in N Bolivia.
		The edible Brazil nuts grow clumped together in large, round, woody and extremely hard seed pods the size of a large grapefruit.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0808785.html (190 words)

	Conservation International - CI Newsroom - Press Releases - Brazil - State of Amazonas Safeguards World's Richest ...
		Amazona's Secretary of Sustainable Development and the Environment (SES) Virgilio Viana made the announcement during the World Parks Congress (WPC) in Durban, South Africa.
		The six new areas are: the Rio Urubú State Forest (45,000 hectares), the Cuieiras State Park (55,800 ha), the Cujubim Sustainable Development Reserve (2,450,381 ha.), the Catuá-Ipixuna Extractive Reserve (216,874 ha), the Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve (1,008,167 ha) and the Samaúma State Park (51 ha).
		"Amazonas has made yet another important commitment to protecting the world's natural heritage and large amounts of resources will be mobilized to honor this commitment," said Viana.
	www.conservation.org /xp/news/press_releases/2003/091003_amaz_eng.xml (677 words)

	Conservation International - CI Newsroom - Press Releases - Nine New Protected Areas Are Created in Brazil’s Amazonas ...
		Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - In an effort to halt illegal land occupancy and deforestation, the Governor of the State of Amazonas, Eduardo Braga, has signed a decree creating nine new areas of conservation in the southern part of the state totaling 3,070,058 hectares.
		Together with adjacent protected and indigenous lands in Amazonas and Pará;, the total conservation area protects about 8 million hectares, which is larger than the state of Amazonas.
		These areas of conservation, for example, are composed of areas that are protected state parks, which are designated for research and ecotourism as well as areas for sustainable development,” said Virgilio Viana, Secretary of the Environment and Sustainable Development of the State of Amazonas.
	www.conservation.org /xp/news/press_releases/2004/121604eng.xml (687 words)

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