Manaus

Manaus, on the banks of the Negro River in northwestern Brazil, is the capital of the vast state of Amazonas. It was known at the beginning of the century, as "Heart of the Amazon" and "City of the Forest".It's a major departure point for the surrounding Amazon Rainforest. Just east of the city, the dark Negro River converges with the brown, muddy Solimões River resulting in a striking visual phenomenon called the “Meeting of the Waters.” The combined tributaries form the Amazon River. Manaus is located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, and access to the city is primarily by boat or airplane. This isolation helped preserve both the natural environment as well as the culture of the city. The culture of Manaus, more than in any other urban…

of 60,000 m3s−1 and 270,000 m3s−1 (Gallo & Vinzon, 2005). The Amazon River runs through more than 6,700 km. It contributes 17% of the freshwater inputs to the global ocean (Callède et al., 2010; Richey et al., 1986). Located between latitudes 5°N and 20°S and between longitudes 50°W and 80°W, the Amazon basin covers 4/10 of South America and 5% of the worldwide continents. It is spread over several countries: 63% of the total area is in Brazil, 16% in Peru, 12% in Bolivia, 5,6% in Colombia, 2,3%…

The tropical rainforest climate is very diverse and interesting. The combination of the climate, vegetation, animals, and uses that the tropical rainforest provides is extensive. One day I will visit one of the few locations of the tropical rainforest, but first I need to know some basic information; where the tropical rainforest is located, the climate and weather, vegetation, animal life, production and people, and impact on the biome. This biome is located on the equator but doesn’t restrict…

order to have a more comprehensive study researchers had to use data from other South American Countries like Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia. After gathering the rainfall records, researchers conducting this study decided to work rainfall anomalies on an annual time scale due to lack of available rainfall data for key locations during the 1920’s. In addition to quantitative government data, a fiction adventure novel (Caroni Gold) gave researcher Robert Meade insight into Amazonian…

you when exactly you could get a new jacket or that one was not to step outside unless under certain conditions? This essay is about characters who rebel from the novels Journey to the River Sea written by Eva Ibbotson and The Giver by Lois Lowry. The kind of rebellion I’m addressing means resisting or acting against the rules. Although these characters may be disobedient, they do have a valid reason. When the main character, Maia, in Eva Ibbotson’s novel, arrived at her uncle’s place, the…

Crowair plc should try to create demand which means not only meeting the existing demand but to generate and stimulate new demand by offering low fares and flights to destinations unexplored. [Journal of Transport literature, Manaus, vol.8, n.1, jan (2014), pg 14…

Cities Surge in Amazon” by Simon Romero, published in New York Times on November 24 2012, argues that the impact of increase of population has caused deforestation. Romero’s ideas that Brazil has increased population has caused deforestation, energy projects bring in more people due to increase of jobs and an iron ore mine has also created more jobs are important points; his ideas that migrants moving to the jungle will repair jungle, birthrate has gone down in Brazil and 2 houses are built…

Sentence 1: “Despite the ongoing controversy on when the peopling of the Americas took place, there is little doubt that the Paleo-India period or adaptation was widely and firmly entrenched in Mesoamerica, and Central and South America between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago.” It seems that many of Paleo-Indian that date back to at least 10,000 years have been discovered by Peru, Ecuador and Chile’s coasts. Hence the site of these same Indians can be found in the Amazonia in Brazil amongst the…

and massacre. Article 5 of the Declaration of Human Rights States, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Violence and torture is commonplace within Brazilian prison systems however the new rise is massacre. In the city of Manaus, there is the Anisio Jobim prison complex which holds a capacity of 590 but is currently housing 2,230 inmates and “roughly 3,000 new inmates are added to overcrowded penitentiaries each month. The prison…

Most of Harley-Davidson’s manufacturing and assembly plants are in the US. The company assembles its touring and soft tail motorcycle models not only in the US but also in India and Brazil. The manufacturing operations such as fabrication, painting and polishing are done there as well. Production and operation at the assembly plant Manaus city in Brazil began in year 1999. The company also owns its second international facility in Bawal city in India. The facility was built in 2011 to expand its…