Novo Airão
| Novo Airão | |
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 Location of the municipality inside Amazonas |
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 Novo Airão
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| Coordinates: 2°37′15″S 60°56′38″W / 2.62083°S 60.94389°WCoordinates: 2°37′15″S 60°56′38″W / 2.62083°S 60.94389°W | |
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 Brazil
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| Region | North |
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 Amazonas
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| Time zone | BRT (UTC−4) |
| • Summer (DST) | DST no longer used (UTC−4) |
Novo Airão is a municipality located in the state of Amazonas in northern Brazil on the Rio Negro River about 180 km upstream of Manaus. Its population was 15,915 (2007) and its area is 37,771 km². The town is reachable both by river and road.
New Airão began when the Jesuits founded a settlement at the mouth of the Jaú River in 1668 named Santo Elias de Jau. The region was inhabited by Indians Waimiri-Atroari, Crichanã, Carabinari and Jauaperi. Everything indicates that the mission village of Santo Elias de Jau was the second or third nucleus of settlement organized by the Portuguese in Amazonian lands. In 1759, the village was elevated to a town with the name Airão by Joaquim de Melo Póvoas, first governor of the captaincy of São José do Rio Negro[]. Later, the district around Airão became part of Manaus and when it was dismembered in 1938, became New Airão.
The municipality contains part of the Anavilhanas National Park, a 350,018 hectares (864,910 acres) conservation unit that was originally an ecological station created in 1981. It holds about 24% of the Rio Negro Left Bank Environmental Protection Area, a 611,008 hectares (1,509,830 acres) sustainable use conservation area created in 1995. It also contains the 146,028 hectares (360,840 acres) Rio Negro State Park North Section, created in 1995. To the south of the state park the municipality contains about 60% 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. It also contains about 16% 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.
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