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Pico Da Neblina National Park
Pico da Neblina National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina) is a national park in the state of Amazonas in the north of Brazil, bordering on Venezuela. It overlaps with several indigenous territories, which creates tensions over land use, as does the military presence due to the border location. The park includes lowlands around the Rio Negro, partly flooded, and mountains that include the highest peak in Brazil, after which the park is named. The wide variety of physical environments supports great biodiversity, including several endangered species. Location The Pico da Neblina National Park is divided between the municipalities of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (29.21%) and Santa Isabel do Rio Negro (70.79%) in the state of Amazonas. It has an area of . The park may be accessed by boat along the Igarapé Itamirim or the Cauaburi and Sá rivers. It may also be reached by small airplane from Manaus. The park adjoins the Serranía de la Neblina National Park in Venez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazonas (Brazilian State)
Amazonas () is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and the largest in South America, being greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. Entirely in the Western Hemisphere, it is the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere after Greenland, Nunavut and Alaska. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas state in Venezuela, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BR-307
BR-307 is a Brazilian federal highway in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira São Gabriel da Cachoeira (''Saint Gabriel of the Waterfall'') is a municipality located on the northern shore of the Rio Negro River, in the region of Cabeça do Cachorro, Amazonas state, Brazil. Location São Gabriel da Cachoeira is the thir ..., Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas that goes from the main town on the Rio Negro (Amazon), Rio Negro to the Cucuí district some north at the triple border with Venezuela and Colombia. Route The road goes through indigenous land such as the Balaio Indigenous Territory and Cué-cué/Marabitanas Indigenous Territory as well as Pico da Neblina National Park. It passes through the Morro dos Seis Lagos Biological Reserve, created in 1990. The unpaved road is largely impassible due to neglect, destroyed bridges, and heavy rainfall. History Along with the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) and the BR-210, Perimetral Norte (BR-210), BR-307 was orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucano People
The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano) are a group of Indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area. They are mostly in Colombia, but some are in Brazil. They are usually described as being made up of many separate tribes, but that oversimplifies the social and linguistic structure of the region. Culture The Tucano are multilingual because men must marry outside their language group: no man may have a wife who speaks his language, which would be viewed as a kind of incest. Men choose women from various neighboring tribes who speak other languages. Furthermore, on marriage, women move into the men's households or longhouses. Consequently, in any village several languages are used: the language of the men; the various languages spoken by women who originate from different neighboring tribes; and a widespread regional 'trade' language. Children are born into the multilingual environment: the child's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cué-cué/Marabitanas Indigenous Territory
The Cué-cué/Marabitanas Indigenous Territory ( pt, Terra Indígena Cué-Cué/Marabitanas) is an indigenous territory in the northwest of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. There were extended delays while the territory was being identified and formally declared. Location The Cué-cué/Marabitanas Indigenous Territory is in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas. The territory has an area of . The Rio Negro flows through the northern portion of the territory, which is bounded by Colombia on the north and Venezuela on the northeast. The Rio Negro defines the western boundary. The settlement of Cucuí on the Rio Negro is in the northern portion of the territory. Highway BR-307 runs through the eastern portion from the settlement of São Gabriel da Cachoeira up to Cucui. In the east, 25% of the territory overlaps the Pico da Neblina National Park. As of 2016 the Upper Rio Negro municipalities of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Barcelos and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balaio Indigenous Territory
The Balaio Indigenous Territory ( pt, Terra Indígena Balaio) is an indigenous territory in the northwest of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The territory is home to small numbers of people from several different ethnic groups of the Arawak and Tucano linguistic families.. It is in the Amazon biome. The territory overlaps with a national park and a biological reserve, both technically fully protected areas. Mining concessions before the territory was recognized have been disallowed. Location The Balaio Indigenous Territory is in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas. It has an area of . The territory lies on either side of highway BR-307. It adjoins the Cué-cué/Marabitanas Indigenous Territory to the north and west. To the east it adjoins the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. An area of , or 93.73% of the reserve, overlaps with the Pico da Neblina National Park. It contains the Morro dos Seis Lagos Biological Reserve. The territory lies in the Rio Negro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanomami Indigenous Territory
The Yanomami Indigenous Territory ( pt, Terra Indígena Yanomami) is an indigenous territory in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil. It overlaps with several federal or state conservation units. It is home to Yanomami and Ye'kuana people. There were conflicts with an overlapping national forest in which mining was permitted, but these appear to have been resolved. Location The Yanomami Indigenous Territory has an area of in the states of Amazonas and Roraima. The territory is bounded by the frontier with Venezuela to the northwest. In the west it adjoins the Balaio and Cué-cué/Marabitanas indigenous territories. 50% of the Pico da Neblina National Park overlaps the western part of the territory. Most of the Amazonas National Forest is within the territory, as is most of the Serra do Aracá State Park. In the southeast it adjoins the Serra da Mocidade National Park and the Caracaraí Ecological Station. In the east it adjoins the Roraima National Forest. People Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which is named after Cambria, the Latinised name for Wales, where rocks from this age were first studied. The Precambrian accounts for 88% of the Earth's geologic time. The Precambrian is an informal unit of geologic time, subdivided into three eons ( Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic) of the geologic time scale. It spans from the formation of Earth about 4.6 billion years ago ( Ga) to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about million years ago ( Ma), when hard-shelled creatures first appeared in abundance. Overview Relatively little is known about the Precambrian, despite it making up roughly seven-eighths of the Earth's history, and what is known has largely been discovered from the 1960s onwards. The Precambrian fossil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pico 31 De Março
Pico 31 de Março, or Pico Trinta e Um de Março in full (), also known as Pico Phelps, is a mountain on the Brazil–Venezuela border. At above sea level, it is Brazil's second highest mountain. It is part of the Cerro de la Neblina, Neblina massif, and the latter's summit Pico da Neblina, Brazil's highest summit, is only away. Pico 31 de Março can be considered a secondary summit of Pico da Neblina. Therefore, it is usually climbed by expeditions primarily aiming to reach the other peak. The two are linked by a mountain pass, col that can be easily traversed in a short trek of about an hour. Discovery and naming The peak was first discovered in 1954 by the Basset Maguire's expedition to the north side of the mountain massif. It was later climbed during the first attempt to climb Pico da Neblina, by a Brazilian army expedition. It received its name (meaning "March 31 Peak" in Portuguese) as a self-homage by the Military dictatorship, military regime instated in Brazil a few mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pico Da Neblina
Pico da Neblina (, literally translatable to ''Mist Peak'') is the highest peak in Brazil, above sea level, in the Serra da Neblina, part of the Serra do Imeri, a section of the Guiana Highlands on the Brazil-Venezuela border. As determined by a border survey expedition in 1962, its summit lies just within Brazilian territory, at a horizontal distance of only from the Venezuelan border at Pico 31 de Março. It's a common misconception to refer to this mountain as the highest point in South America outside the Andes while ignoring the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. As the peak's name suggests, it is shrouded in dense clouds most of the time. It was first ascended in 1965 by members of a Brazilian Army expedition. Location Officially, Pico da Neblina is located in the municipality of Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, state of Amazonas. However, the mountain is not directly accessible from the urban seat of the municipality, which is about away, and federal authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
