Itapiranga, Amazonas

For the city in Santa Catarina, see Itapiranga, Santa Catarina.

Itapiranga is a municipality locatit in the state o Amazonas northren Brazil on the left bank o the Solimões River aboot 200 km east o Manaus. Its population wis 8,625 (2005) an its aurie is 4,231 km².^[1]

Day-set in Itapiranga

The name is o Indian oreegin, an wis gien tae a quarry which haes a port. It comes frae ita, stane an pitanga, red, so the name means "red stane".

History

It was founded in 1931 as a suburb of Silves.