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Carauari
Municipality of Amazonas, Brazil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carauari is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 28,508 (2020)[1] and its area is 25,767 km².[2]
The city is served by Carauari Airport.
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The town is in the Juruá-Purus moist forests ecoregion.[3] The municipality contains about 5% of the Tefé National Forest, created in 1989.[4] The municipality contains 251,577 hectares (621,660 acres) Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve, created in 1997, on the left bank of the meandering Juruá River.[5] It also contains the 632,949 hectares (1,564,050 acres) Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 2005.[6]
Climate
Carauari has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with unpleasantly hot and humid weather year-round. Rainfall is significant throughout, although the period from June to August is drier than the remainder of the year.
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