Where is Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil) located ?
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02/07/22 [Phys.org] > Waterways in Brazil's Manaus choked by tons of trash : In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they're visiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Not far from ...
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17/05/21 [Reuters] > Brazil's pandemic-weary Manaus flooded by rising Amazon rivers : MANAUS, May 17 (Reuters) - Heavy rains in the Amazon rainforest have caused rivers to rise to near record levels, flooding small Brazilian towns and threatening the state capital Manaus with another ...
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28/02/21 [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] > After coronavirus chaos, Manaus was thought to be the first city to reach herd immunity. Then a second wave hit : Once the ICU units in Manaus's hospitals were fully occupied, the crisis spilled out into the corridors. Patients lying sideways on makeshift beds and breathing from oxygen cylinders lined the ...
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11/02/21 [The Washington Post] > The arduous path for oxygen to reach the sick in one of Brazil’s most remote regions : The desperate words of Thalita Rocha went viral on Jan. 14. “We are in a deplorable situation,” she said in a video posted to Instagram. “Whoever has oxygen availability, bring it here to the ...
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09/06/20 [Yahoo] > AP PHOTOS: Manaus indigenous struggle for care amid pandemic : Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six-year-old Elano de Souza, of the Sateré Mawé indigenous ethnic group, poses for a portrait wearing the traditional dress of his ...
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07/09/17 [CNN] > The best things to do in Manaus, Brazil : Manaus, Brazil, is a city of 1.8 million people surrounded by 2 million square miles of Amazon jungle more than 1,500 miles from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Though it doesn’t get as many tourists as ...
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14/04/15 [The Guardian] > Manaus's opulent Amazon Theatre – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 15 : Centrepiece of a city funded by the rubber boom, this opera house in the ‘Paris of the jungle’ is a symbol of Brazil’s controversial urban past, and present On the evening of 7 January 1897, a large ...
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19/06/14 [Business Insider] > The Remote City That's Hosting The US-Portugal Game Is The Most Glaring Example Of World Cup Waste : Before the World Cup draw last December, the U.S. men's national team coach, Jurgen Klinsmann, said he'd be fine with any and all scenarios, as long as his team didn't have to go to Manaus, the remote ...