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Introduction
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| Brazil, is the fifth largest country in the world and the largest within South
America. It covers 3.47 million
square miles and supports a population of about 165 million people, creating an
enviable Gross Domestic Product of $7 billion.
The
largest geographic region in Brazil is the Amazon Basin, accounting for 1.5
million square kilometres, which comprises one third of the total surface area
of Brazil. The
Amazonian climate is hot and humid, average temperatures ranging between 25 and
35 degrees, with levels of humidity reaching 100%. The
Capital City of the Amazon Basin is named ‘Manaus’. The distance from Manaus to the area where UNESCO’s
linked river community is situated, is approximately 331 km by air, taking 45
minutes (at a cost of £60 at time
of writing), or two days on a passenger boat 471 km (costing £10 at time of
writing). There
are 62 municipalities within the Amazon region. The
municipality in which where we are landing, is the 2nd largest, an area of
65,663 km squared, the
equivalent of an area six times the size of the U.K, where 45 thousand
people live (approximately 30,000 rural and 15,000 urban dwellers), equalling
59% of people who are spread throughout 225 river communities,
of which 20 communities are considered registered as indigenous
territories and only 62 communities are linked with the Association of
Agricultural Workers.
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