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Rio Negro Right Bank Environmental Protection Area

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169: 48: 55: 328:, established in 2002. The limits of the APA were again altered by state law 3355 of 26 December 2008. On 9 September 2014 a working group was established to review the limits of the Puduari-SolimÔes section of the Margem Direita do Rio Negro Environmental Protection Area and the Rio Negro State Park North Section to compensate for land used to create the new campus for the 295:
There are 30 communities in the APA, mainly engaged in subsistence fishing but also practising commercial fishing, farming, livestock raising and manufacture of flour, canoes and boats, brooms and handicrafts. The main commercial fish are the
221:, or the surroundings of the town of Novo Airão. The section from Manaus to Novo Airão is mainly accessed by boat or float plane. There is also access along the AM-340 highway. The APA has an area of 461,741 hectares (1,140,990 acres). 233:. It protects the extensive forests of the Rio Negro in the Central Amazon Plain. The APA is drained by white water and black water rivers in the interfluvial region of the Rio Negro and SolimÔes basins, including 237:
lowland areas and higher terra firma. In the section north of Novo AirĂŁo the forests are almost intact, but further south there are degraded areas in the municipality of Iranduba due to the proximity of Manaus.
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The Rio Negro Right Bank APA was created by Amazonas state governor decree 16.498 of 2 April 1995. State law 2646 of 22 May 2001 modified the limits of the Rio Negro State Park
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and Right Bank APAs. The Rio Negro Right Bank APA, Puduari - SolimÔes Section, now had an area of 566,365 hectares (1,399,520 acres). It became part of the
500: 438: 495: 490: 550: 586: 505: 321: 555: 470: 530: 431: 525: 515: 540: 535: 520: 465: 218: 510: 480: 273:). The APA is home to many species of frogs, lizards and snakes, and several of turtles and alligators, including the endangered 581: 454: 153: 116: 325: 317: 313: 202: 217:, including part of the left bank of the SolimÔes. It does not include the section of the right bank covered by the 33: 304:. The APA has several archaeological sites. The villages of Paricatuba and Acajatuba are tourist attractions. 229:
The Rio Negro Right Bank Environmental Protection Area is in the central Amazonia corridor and is part of the
258: 157: 576: 329: 301: 193:(59.87%) in the state of Amazonas. It covers most of the land along the right (west) bank of the 230: 181:
Parts of the Rio Negro Right Bank Environmental Protection Area lies in the municipalities of
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There are over 40 species of mammals including the endangered
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VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
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Centro Estadual de Unidades de Conservação do Amazonas
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IUCN category
Map showing the location of Rio Negro Right Bank Environmental Protection Area
2°46â€Č06″S 61°06â€Č05″W / 2.768251°S 61.101446°W / -2.768251; -61.101446
Environmental protection area
Portuguese
Environmental protection area
Amazonas

Iranduba
Manacapuru
Novo AirĂŁo
Rio Negro
Puduari River
Rio Negro State Park North Section
SolimÔes River
Amazon River
Manaus
Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve
Lower Rio Negro Mosaic
vĂĄrzea
jaguar
giant otter
black-and-white hawk-eagle
harpy eagle
black caiman
Arapaima gigas
Semaprochilodus taeniurus
Semaprochilodus insignis
North Section
South Section

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