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9 unusual facts about Manaus


Eduardo Braga

Better known as Eduardo Braga, he was a councilman in Manaus (1981–1985), state deputy (1987–1991), representative (1991–1993), vice-mayor (1993–1994) and mayor (1994–1997).

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.

Gilberto Righi

In addition, his Amazonian material can be found at both the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Manaus, and the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém.

Guasiniidae

González-Sponga found the two first species inside bark under litter, G. persephone was also found inside soil, in an inundation-forest of black-water (igapó) at Tarumã-Mirim, near the mouth of Rio Negro, 20km upstream from Manaus.

María del Carmen García

María del Carmen García (born 27 July 1969) is a retired high jumper from Cuba, who set her personal best on 17 March 1990, jumping 1.92 metres at a meet in Manaus.

Tio Tjay

In 1971 till 1975 he resided in Manaus, where he befriend with many natives, which gives him an opportunity to enter the Amazon.

Vanessa Grazziotin

Among her proposals in the Chamber were the creation of a Green Seal for goods manufactured on the Manaus Free Trade Zone, the prohibition of the distribution of plastic bags, and the creation of the Day of African and Amerindian Culture (to be celebrated on May 13).

Walking with a Ghost

Tracks two and five recorded live on June 1, 2005 in Manaus, Brazil; the latter includes a performance of "Passive Manipulation"


A Company of Swans

She joins the Company and they practice for a week in Century Theatre before leaving for Manaus, where they will perform Giselle, Swan Lake, La Fille Mal Gardee, and Casse Noisette (The Nutcracker).

Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).

Canal Livre

It was presented by the former police officer and former politician Wallace Souza and was the most popular show in the city of Manaus.

Casiquiare canal

During a 1924–25 expedition, Alexander H. Rice, Jr. of Harvard University traveled up the Orinoco, traversed the Casiquiare canal, and descended the Rio Negro to the Amazon at Manaus.

Colégio Militar

The Portuguese Colégio Militar gave birth to a net of twelve military schools in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Juíz de Fora, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Brasília and Campo Grande) built in cooperation with the Portuguese experience of a centenary school with high levels of success.

Festive Amazon

Although it has declined locally, it remains fairly common throughout a large part of its range and can even be seen near cities such as Manaus and Iquitos.

Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

With three R&D centers in Brazil (located in Brasilia, Manaus, and Recife) and a satellite office in São Paulo, INdT counts on a group of approximately 350 professionals and works to become a world-wide recognized competence center.

Ireng River

The Ireng River's waters are dark, bearing a striking resemblance to that of Rio Negro near Manaus, in Brazilian state of Amazonas.

Machines of the Isle of Nantes

In the warehouses of the former shipyards in Nantes, the Machines of the Isle is created by two artists, François Delarozière (La Machine) and Pierre Orefice (Manaus association), visualising a travel-through-time world at the crossroads of the "imaginary worlds" of Jules Verne and the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci.

Manaus Compensão Esporte Clube

Manaus Compensão Esporte Clube play their home games at Estádio Francisco Garcia, commonly known as Chicão, and located in Rio Preto da Eva.

Opération 14 juillet

On 8 July Pierre-Henri Guignard and an 11-person team of Direction Générale de la Securité Exterieure (DGSE) personnel boarded a C-130 Hercules transport in Évreux for the Brazilian city Manaus, landing the next day.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira Airport

6 March 1991: a TABA Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante flying to Manaus was hijacked near São Gabriel da Cachoeira by 3 persons.


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