Itapiranga, Amazonas

Itapiranga
Itapiranga
Municipality
	Seal
	Location of the municipality inside Amazonas
	Coordinates: 2°44′56″S 58°1′19″W / 2.74889°S 58.02194°W
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Amazonas
Area
• Total	4,231 km2 (1,634 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	9,230
• Density	2/km2 (5/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−4 (BRT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (DST no longer used)

Itapiranga is a municipality located in the state of Amazonas northern Brazil on the left bank of the Solimões River about 200 km east of Manaus. Its population was 9,230 (2020)^[1] and its area is 4,231 km².^[2]

The name is of Indian origin, and was given to a quarry which has a port. It comes from ita, stone and pitanga, red, so the name means "red stone".

The municipality contains about 40% of the 424,430 hectares (1,048,800 acres) Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve, which protects the lower part of the Uatumã River basin.^[3]

History

It was founded in 1931 as a suburb of Silves.

References

^ IBGE 2020
^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2014-08-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ RDS do Uatumã (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-07-25

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[1] IBGE 2020

[2] IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2014-08-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] RDS do Uatumã (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-07-25

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