Carauari
| Carauari | |||
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| Municipality | |||
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 Location of the municipality inside Amazonas | |||
  Carauari Location in Brazil | |||
| Coordinates: 4°52′58″S 66°53′45″W / 4.88278°S 66.89583°WCoordinates: 4°52′58″S 66°53′45″W / 4.88278°S 66.89583°W | |||
| Country |
 Brazil | ||
| Region | North | ||
| State |
 Amazonas | ||
| Time zone | BRT (UTC−4) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | DST no longer used (UTC−4) | ||
Carauari is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 25,918 (2005) and its area is 25,767 km².[1]
The city is served by Carauari Airport.
The municipality contains about 5% of the Tefé National Forest, created in 1989.[2] The municipality contains 251,577 hectares (621,660 acres) Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve, created in 1997, on the left bank of the meandering Juruá River.[3] It also contains the 632,949 hectares (1,564,050 acres) Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 2005.[4]
Climate
| Climate data for Carauari | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 30.0 (86) |
30.4 (86.7) |
30.5 (86.9) |
30.2 (86.4) |
30.9 (87.6) |
30.0 (86) |
30.0 (86) |
31.5 (88.7) |
31.9 (89.4) |
31.5 (88.7) |
31.0 (87.8) |
30.6 (87.1) |
30.71 (87.28) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.9 (78.6) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.4 (79.5) |
25.8 (78.4) |
25.4 (77.7) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.7 (80.1) |
26.6 (79.9) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.3 (79.3) |
26.23 (79.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 21.9 (71.4) |
22.4 (72.3) |
22.3 (72.1) |
22.3 (72.1) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.7 (71.1) |
20.9 (69.6) |
21.0 (69.8) |
21.5 (70.7) |
21.8 (71.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.0 (71.6) |
21.8 (71.23) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 301 (11.85) |
242 (9.53) |
320 (12.6) |
307 (12.09) |
231 (9.09) |
126 (4.96) |
89 (3.5) |
105 (4.13) |
153 (6.02) |
195 (7.68) |
235 (9.25) |
283 (11.14) |
2,587 (101.84) |
| Source: http://en.climate-data.org/location/44143/ | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ↑ FLONA de Tefé (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-19
- ↑ RESEX do Médio Juruá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-16
- ↑ RDS de Uacari (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-06
Capital: Manaus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mesoregion Centro Amazonense |
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| Mesoregion Norte Amazonense |
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| Mesoregion Sudoeste Amazonense |
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| Mesoregion Sul Amazonense |
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