Manaus is the capital of the state of Amazonas, the largest state in Brazil, measuring more than 1.5 million square km. Amazonas shares borders with the Brazilian states of Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Acre, and Roraima, and with neighboring countries Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru. Amazonas counts a little more than 3.5 million inhabitants. More than 1.8 million live in Manaus (IBGE, 2011), the seventh largest city in Brazil. The city counts 11.4 thousand square km, slightly smaller than Flanders. Manaus is located at the confluence of the rivers Rio Negro and Solimões. The average altitude is slightly less than 100 m. The region of Manaus has a tropical monsoon climate, with over 200 cm rainfall annually, and an average temperature of more than 26 degrees centigrade. The Human Development Index is 0.774.
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