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2 unusual facts about Amazonas-class corvette


Amazonas-class corvette

During her one-month voyage to Brazil, she docked in the cities of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte and Salvador, Bahia in September, and was expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro on 5 October.

The second was named Scarborough on her launch a day later at Scotstoun in Glasgow, and began sea trials in July 2010, reaching 25.38 knots.


2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

On June 27, 69 more cases were confirmed: 34 of them in São Paulo, 8 in Rio de Janeiro, 7 in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 in Paraná, 4 in Minas Gerais, 2 in Distrito Federal, 2 in Santa Catarina, 2 in Espírito Santo, 1 in Pará, 1 in Maranhão and the first in Amazonas.

Alberto Pizango

In response, the government declared a state of emergency in the departments of Cusco, Loreto and Amazonas, a move that gave it the power to send in the army to forcibly remove and arrest the protesters.

Amazonas

Amazonas is derived from Rio Amazonas, the local Portuguese and Spanish name for the Amazon River.

Briton-class corvette

Between them, they were assigned to the China, East Indies, African, North American, and the Pacific Stations.

Buque de Acción Marítima

In June 2009, the Secretary of State for Defence and Congress confirmed the construction of a second batch to replace older patrol boats of the Anaga (3), Toralla (2), Descubierta (4) and the now-retired Barceló (6) & Conejera (4) classes.

Burak-class corvette

Burak-class corvette (Turkish: Burak sınıfı korvet), aka B-class corvette, is a warship class of the Turkish Navy, all ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions.

Buyan-class corvette

The first ship of her class, the Astrakhan was commissioned on January 2006, and assigned to the Caspian Flotilla.

Cabeça do Cachorro

This region roughly coincides with the Brazilian municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira and parts of Japurá, and shares international borders with the Venezuelan state of Amazonas (to the northeast), and the Colombian departments of Guainía (to north), Vaupés (to west) and Amazonas (to southwest).

Campina Jay

The Campina Jay is endemic to the Brazilian Amazon where it is known almost entirely from within the Madeira-Purus interfluve in the state of Amazonas.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Cobalt-winged Parakeet

The range of the Cobalt-winged Parakeet is in the extreme western Amazon Basin in Brazil's states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia, part of the North Region; also from north to south, southernmost Venezuela, eastern Colombia-Ecuador-Peru, and northern and central Bolivia, and in Bolivia within the tributary rivers to the Madeira River flowing northeast to the Amazon River.

Dinoponera gigantea

Dinoponera gigantea has been found on the coast of Guyana, in the Brazilian states of Amazonas, Pará including Marajo Island, Mato Grosso and Maranhão as well as the Loreto Province in Peru.

Dinoponera longipes

Dinoponera longipes have been collected in eastern Peru in the departments of Loreto, Amazonas, Huánuco, San Martín and Pasco, as well as Ecuador in the province of Pastaza.

Donald MacKillop

In 1944, aged seventeen he joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor and served on the North Atlantic Convoys, on the Flower-class corvette, HMS Loosestrife.

Durjoy-class corvette

The LPC are armed with a single 76.2mm NG-16-1 automatic cannon, two twin 25mm cannon mounted amidships, four C-704 surface to surface missiles (SSM) mounted aft, and two forward-mounted six-barreled RDC depth charge rocket launchers.

Eduardo Braga

He campaigned for the government of Amazonas in 1998 and for the city hall of Manaus in 2000 without success.

Esporte Clube Tarumã

Esporte Clube Tarumã, commonly known as Tarumã, is a football (soccer) club from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

Francisco Manuel Barroso, Baron of Amazonas

Francisco Manuel Barroso, Baron of Amazonas (September 29, 1804 in Lisbon – August 8, 1882 in Montevidéo) commanded the Brazilian fleet during the Battle of Riachuelo in the Paraguayan War.

Gerd von Hassler

His main interest was studying the legendary continent of Atlantis, which he discussed and documented in various publications such as his 1976 book Noahs Weg zum Amazonas (Noah's route to the Amazon), which was translated in English by the paranormal writer Martin Ebon under the title of The lost survivors of the deluge (1980).

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Grisha-class corvette

Two were transferred to the Ukrainian Navy and around seven are in service with the Russian Maritime Border Guard.

Huambo District

Huambo District, Rodríguez de Mendoza, a district of the province Rodríguez de Mendoza, in Amazonas, Peru

Jamundá River

The 300 km long Jamunda river originates in the plateau Serra do Jatapu near the division of the northern Brazilian States of Roraima, Amazonas and Pará, from there it flows down, forming the natural division between Amazonas and Pará, crossing the Nhamunda-Mapuera national ecological reservation (EG033) before joining the Amazon River near the small village of Nhamundá.

Lábrea fever

Lábrea fever, also known as Lábrea's black fever and Lábrea hepatitis, is a lethal tropical viral infection discovered in the 1950s in the city of Lábrea, in the Brazilian Amazon basin, where it occurs mostly in the area south of the Amazon River, in the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia

Lepthoplosternum stellatum

This species is so far known from the type locality only, the Igarapé Repartimento, a tributary of the mouthbay lake, Tefé Lake, some 6 km south of the town of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.

Long-tailed Potoo

The range in Bolivia is bifurcated; in the north, the Long-tailed Potoo is found on the headwater rivers to Brazil's Amazonas state's Madeira River; in northeastern Bolivia, the bifurcated range extends only to the mountain headwaters of another tributary of the Madeira, the Brazilian-Bolivia Guaporé River.

Lowland Peruvian Quechua

Chachapoyas Quechua, or Amazonas Quechua, spoken in the provinces of Chachapoyas and Luya in the region of Amazonas by some 7,000 people

Lyropteryx apollonia

This rare species is widespread in the tropical areas of the South America, particularly in Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso), Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.

María-Luz Álvarez

Giacomo Facco Las Amazonas de Espana, Maria Luz Alvarez, Raquel Andueza, Los Musicos del Buen Retiro, Isabel Serrano, Antoine Ladrette.

Marmelo

Dos Marmelos River, a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil

Nakhoda Ragam-class corvette

The contract was awarded to GEC-Marconi in 1995 and the ships, a variant of the F2000 design, were launched in January 2001, June 2001 and June 2002 at the then BAE Systems Marine yard at Scotstoun, Glasgow.

Olivença

São Paulo de Olivença, a municipality in the state of Amazonas in Brazil.

Parchim-class corvette

The electronic defense suite was very basic, and consisted of an IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) receiver and transmitter, and an 'ELOKA' multiband passive RWR antenna slaved to a double 16-cell chaff dispenser.

Peacock-class corvette

This ship takes her name from a Tipperary saint born around the year 611 who, after taking religious vows in her teens, founded a convent in Kilkeary, near Nenagh.

Also featured is a Celtic cross as a representation of the North Cross at Athenny, County Tipperary.

Peca

La Peca – name of a district and its main town in the Bagua Province, Amazonas Region of Peru

PR-72P-class corvette

Pennant numbers were originally P-101 to P-106, but were later modified to CM-21 to CM-26, where CM stands for corbeta misilera, Spanish for guided missile corvette.

Rikbaktsa people

Their traditional territory spanned 50,000 km² of Juruena River basin, stretching from the Papagaio River in the south to the Augusto Falls on the upper Tapajós River in the north.

Saint Thomas of Guiana

It was erected by Pius VI on 19 December 1791, and comprises the former state of Bermúdez, districts of Nueva Esparta and Guayana, and territories of Amazonas, Caura, Colón, Orinoco, and Yuruary, in the south and east of Venezuela.

Stockholm-class corvette

In early 2009 the Swedish government decided that the two ships in the class was to join the EU-lead taskforce outside Somalia, where its would fight piracy.

In the early 1980s a series of submarine incidents occurred within Swedish territorial waters, the most famous of which was U 137 which ran aground outside Karlskrona 1981.

Total Linhas Aéreas

Presently Total operates three ATR42-500 for regular charter flights, particularly for Petrobras in Amazonas and six Boeing 727-200F for cargo and nightmail flights as per contract with Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation and the Central Bank of Brazil, among others.

Uyuni

Currently, two local airlines are flying regularly to the city from La Paz, Sucre and Rurrenabaque: Amazonas and Transporte Aéreo Militar.

Visby-class corvette

Much of the design was based on the experiences learned from the experimental ship HSwMS Smyge.

White-browed Hawk

In Bolivia, on the Brazil-Bolivia border river the Guapore, the range bifurcates and is found only at the headwaters of the Guapore, and in the northern Bolivia-Peru region where the Guapore joins the headwater rivers of Brazil's Amazonas state's Madeira River.

White-winged Potoo

The main range of the White-winged Potoo is the central Amazon Basin at the confluence of four rivers, from the Rio Negro on the north, to the Madeira River on the south, in eastern regions of Brazil's Amazonas state.


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