Amazonas

A critical arena in the fight against deforestation will be the AMACRO zone, a 180,000-square-mile region in northwestern Brazil (the name is taken from the states it covers: Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia).

Documents from a medical exam at the time show the two brothers had minor injuries after being arrested by Amazonas state police.

The Indigenous reserve where the children live, next to the small town of Araracuara in the department of Amazonas, is extremely remote, according to their great-uncle, Fidencio Valencia.

A total of 20 Peruvian companies from coffee-growing regions Amazonas, Cajamarca, Cusco, Junin, and San Martin showcased their specialty coffees to various international buyers, mainly from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Belgium.

For example, state subsidies are boosting Amazon rubber tappers’ earnings, allowing some to potentially earn nearly 15,000 reais in a month, said Aurelio Diaz Herraiz, from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas state.

But in August last year, a federal court in Amazonas that the ANM must revoke all pending applications for mineral exploration or mining on indigenous territories in the state.

Gomez said he plans to donate 10 of his new beds to Colombia’s Amazonas department, where resources are in short supply.

Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, is now an industrial powerhouse, a major producer of motorcycles, with many foreign businesses including Harley Davidson, Sony and Foxconn which manufacturers Apple products.

The state of Amazonas, where the Javari Valley lies, was hard hit by COVID-19 in April, which led to mass burials and chaos in hospitals of capital city Manaus.

The valley in the west of Brazil’s Amazonas state is part of a region bordering Peru and Colombia that is home to the world’s largest number of isolated indigenous people and others who had contact with outside society for the first time only recently.

Wearing a crown of feathers, a necklace of tusks and a surgical mask, Remberto Cahuamari is worried that the loss of “grandparents” to COVID-19 will rob the Ticuna community in the Colombian department of Amazonas of its ancestral wisdom.

Satellite images show fires in the Brazilian states of Amazonas, Rondonia, Para and Mato Grosso.

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil.

Researchers monitored the tribe in Vale do Javari, an indigenous territory in the southwestern part of the state of Amazonas.

The neighbouring state of Amazonas has confirmed 263 cases of measles and is investigating another 1,368.

Government offensives eradicated much of the visible guerrilla presence in northern and central Colombia as well as in Guainía, Vaupés and Amazonas, limiting FARC to clandestine operations.

He continued many of the projects that were planned during his 1963-1968 term, including the completion of the Carretera Marginal de la Selva, a roadway linking Chiclayo on the Pacific coast with then-isolated northern regions Amazonas and San Martín.

The name Amazonas came from the natives warriors that attacked this expedition, mostly women, that reminded Orellana of the woman warriors the Amazons from the Hellenic culture.

Where departments have a low population (for example Amazonas, Vaupés and Vichada), special administrative divisions are employed, such as "department corregimientos", which are a hybrid of a municipality and a corregimiento.