Porphyrolaema Porphyrolaema
The purple-throated cotinga (''Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema'') is a species of bird in the cotinga family, Cotingidae. It is found in the western Amazon rainforest of South America; its range extends from southern Colombia south through eastern Ecuador and Peru and east through extreme northwestern Bolivia and into western Amazonian Brazil. It lives in the canopy or along the borders of humid forest throughout its range. The purple-throated cotinga is Monotypic taxon, monotypic within the genus ''Porphyrolaema'' and has no known subspecies. It is one of the smaller cotinga species and expresses strong sexual dimorphism. Males have black upperparts with a bold white wingstripe and white edges to the tertial feathers and a white belly with some black barring on the rear flanks. The throat is a deep purple, giving the bird both its common and scientific names. Females are dark brown with pale buffy margins on the upperparts, buffy cinnamon with black barring on the underparts, and ruf ...
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Apiacás
Apiacás is the northernmost municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It is the only city in a territorial "edge" of Mato Grosso that "pierce" the boundary between Amazonas and Pará. The municipality contains part of the Juruena National Park Juruena National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional do Juruena), declared in 2006, is the third largest national park of Brazil. It is located along the Juruena River, in the north of Mato Grosso state and the south of Amazonas state. It forms part o ..., one of the largest conservation units in Brazil. References Municipalities in Mato Grosso Populated places established in 2001 {{matoGrosso-geo-stub ...
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