Presidente Figueiredo is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

located in the

Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

of Amazonas. Its population was 37,193 (2020) and its area is 25,422 km².

History

The name of the municipality honors , the first president of the province of Amazonas at the time of the empire. The origins of the municipality are mainly related to

Novo Airão Novo Airão (or New 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 19,928 (2020) and its area is 37,771 km². The town is reacha ...

and Itapiranga, since most of the territory that today is President Figueiredo was dismembered, as well as Manaus, whose neighborhood was an influential factor in the development of the region. The first settlements in these poles date from 1657, to the place where today is the municipality of Manaus, and in 1668, the place today is the headquarters of Novo Airão. It was from these nuclei that the consolidation and expansion of the settlement of the Baixo Rio Negro took place. Integrated in the municipality of

Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...

, Novo Airão became a capital district in 1938, then with the name simply Airão. It is in 1955 that the dismemberment of Manaus takes place, being constituted the Autonomous municipality of

. In parallel, in 1952 was created the municipality of Itapiranga, counting in its area with the current village of . On December 10, 1981, by Constitutional Amendment No. 12, the municipality of Presidente Figueiredo was created, with territories dismembered from Novo Airão (its eastern border bordering Manaus) and Itapiranga (Vila and surroundings of Balbina), as well adjacent areas of

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and

Urucará Urucará is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 16,130 (2020) and its area is 27,905 km2. The municipality contains part of the Uatumã Biological Reserve Uatumã Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológ ...

. The installation of the municipality took place with the general elections of 1982 and consequently with the possession of the mayor and councilors in January 1983.

Conservation

The municipality contains the Caverna do Maroaga Environmental Protection Area, established in 1990. It contains part of the

Uatumã Biological Reserve Uatumã Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do Uatumã) is a Biological reserve around the river Uatumã in the state of Amazonas in Brazil. Location The Uatumã Biological Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Urucará ( ...

, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2002. It also holds about 2% of the

Rio Negro Left Bank Environmental Protection Area The Rio Negro Left Bank Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Margem Esquerda do Rio Negro) is an environmental protection area in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It protects an area of Amazon rainforest on the left ba ...

, a sustainable use conservation area created in 1995.

Infrastructure

Health

In 2009, Presidente Figueiredo had 22 health facilities among hospitals, emergency rooms, health centers and dental services. Of these, 20 were public and only 2 were private. Among public health facilities, all were owned by the municipal network. In total there were 39 beds for hospitalization in that year.

References

1985 establishments in Brazil Municipalities in Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{AmazonasBR-geo-stub