Manaus

Rafael Cruz, a Greenpeace activist in Manaus who has been monitoring the drought, said that while the rise and fall of the Amazon's rivers was a normal process, recent years had seen both extreme droughts and flooding become worryingly frequent.

Drought brings Amazon tributary to lowest level in a century Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro 2010

Visitors need prior authorization from the Park Director at IBAMA headquarters in Manaus.

Jaú National Park, Brazil 2008

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We are in the city of Manaus, which is really in the heart of the Amazon.

CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2007 2007

Barra, on the northeast bank of the Rio Negro not far from its junction with the Amazon, is now a big ragged city called Manaus.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Barra, on the northeast bank of the Rio Negro not far from its junction with the Amazon, is now a big ragged city called Manaus.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Duluth, Ga.-based NCR NYSE: NCR said Brazil-based Scopus also will gain a 49 percent equity stake in NCR Manaus, which is NCR's Brazilian manufacturing and engineering unit.

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Duluth, Ga.-based NCR NYSE: NCR said Brazil-based Scopus also will gain a 49 percent equity stake in NCR Manaus, which is NCR's Brazilian manufacturing and engineering unit.

unknown title 2011

Duluth, Ga.-based NCR NYSE: NCR said Brazil-based Scopus also will gain a 49 percent equity stake in NCR Manaus, which is NCR's Brazilian manufacturing and engineering unit.

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In an area known as the Manaus Free Zone, just north of the Amazonian city of Manaus, the government required that 50 percent of the forest on a developed area must be saved.

Mongabay.com News 2009

But you go 300 miles east of Fordlandia, and there's this city of Manaus, which is the fastest-growing city in Brazil.

Democracy Now! 2009