Iranduba
Iranduba | |
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Municipality | |
Municipality of Iranduba | |
UTC−4 (AMT) | |
Area code | +55 92 |
HDI (2000) | 0.694 – medium[2] |
Website | www.iranduba.am.gov.br |
Iranduba is a
The population of Iranduba in 2020 was 49,011 and its area is 2,215 km2,[3] making it the smallest municipality in Amazonas in terms of area.
Geography
The municiaplity is located south and west of
The municipality contains about 21% of the Rio Negro Right Bank Environmental Protection Area, a 1,140,990 hectares (2,819,400 acres) sustainable use conservation unit that controls use of an area of Amazon rainforest along the Rio Negro above the junction with the Solimões River.[4] It also contains about 80% of the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve, a 103,086 hectares (254,730 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 2008 in an effort to stop deforestation in the area, which is threatened due to its proximity to Manaus.[5]
References
- ^ IBGE 2020
- UNDP
- ^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ APA Margem Direita do Rio Negro (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-26
- ^ RDS do Rio Negro (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-27