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FARC

FARC?? In Manaus?? Never heard of it. Surely in Brazil's territory, along isolated Amazon rainforest. Not in the city. Perhaps misunderstanding, observing the fact that the city, like many in Brazil, have many drug dealers (organized crime), that can have agreements with these terrorists groups to get easy acess to drugs and weapons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ApS Camper (talk • contribs) 00:54, 31 December 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I agree — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moneal04 (talk • contribs) 21:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cosmopolitan?

"Manaus is a cosmopolitan city, and, because of (...)" What the ...?!?! Whoever wrote this should first learn what the word 'cosmopolitan' means... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.44.4.49 (talk) 18:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neighborhood list

The neighborhood list seems superfluous and excessive. I recommend deleting it. 96.238.45.90 (talk) 02:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Languages

Can someone mention what languages are spoken in Manaus please? --Rebroad (talk) 18:08, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:people in manaus speak portugeese — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.130.232 (talk) 16:39, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling/Grammatical Errors

This article was clearly translated from Portuguese and suffers from poor grammar. Please fix this. 131.156.17.115 (talk) 00:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Manaus, a city in Brazil.

In the article abaout this city a number of distances to other cities are mentioned.

I don't know the exact distances but I think there is a certain confusion.

Distances Belém - 1,316 km - access by river ferries or ships Porto Velho - 911 km Rio Branco - 1,109 km Boa Vista - 753 km Brasilia - 3,315 km Curitiba - 4,036 km São Paulo - 3,971 km Rio de Janeiro - 4,374 km Cuiabá - 2,905 km Goiânia - 3,291 km Porto Alegre - 4,563 km Belo Horizonte - 3,951 km Fortaleza - 5,733 km Recife - 5,698 km

So the distance between Manaus and Fortaleza or Recife is indicated as to be much longer than to Rio de Janeiro. In reality I think this distance is not more than 4.500 km. Who can give the correct distances?

Thank you.

Jan Vindevoghel Belgium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.118.183.29 (talk) 19:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Airport

Regarding the airport, does anybody know how many runways the airport has, and the lengths of them??? And what is the largest aircraft that can fly into Manaus??? Thanks in advance to anybody that knows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.156.88 (talk) 21:06, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bogus scholarship

A lot of websites of dubious scholarship (I would say in fact, not scholars at all) are cited as sources for factually wrong statements. Manaus was NOT founded in 1669; it was in fact started construction in June, 1693, according to the original letter from the Governor (in Portuguese, of course). We do not know when construction was finished, but we may presume it was in the same year, and that habitation therefore started in 1693-94. I'm going to delete the dubious websites, and all statements held in place by them.Sbalfour (talk) 23:55, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of Manaus

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 13:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Location: an internal inconsistency

Currently, the article contains the following statements:

Located on the north bank of the Negro River, 18 km (11 mi) above the meeting of the rivers where the Negro merges with the Solimões, Manaus is 1,400 km (900 mi) inland from the Atlantic Ocean. . . . The Solimões and Negro rivers meet in Manaus and join to form the Amazon River (bold font added by Unschool.)

So which is it? Do the rivers meet in Manaus or 18 km from the junction? Un school 02:35, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi user:Unschool, the question is only of misinterpretation in the text, it might be because of wrong translation also, as in the Brazilian Portuguese, this stretch of the Amazon River, to Manaus until border of Brazil, is called the Solimões River. --wu22222 • (talk to me) 18:26, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, wu22222. I'm glad to talk to someone in Brazil. I'm aware of the fact that some of the Amazon in that area is named the Solimões. But here's my question: Is the junction of the Solimões with the Negro located within the city of Manaus, or 18 km from Manaus, or somewhere else? Perhaps it would help if you could answer this question: Is Manaus located only on one side of the river, or both? Un school 00:38, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Unschool, the location of the city is only in the right side of the River (towards atlantic-andes), is 18 km from the meeting of the waters into the river, is that had already spoken, may be translation error in which the translator has translated the information from the original version without reviewing them. To help you better understand, I put two images here to exemplify

meeting of the waters.

meeting of the waters by satellite.

--wu22222 • (talk to me) 16:15, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I now believe I have a firm understanding of the relationship of the city and both rivers. I have made some minor alterations to the wording of the intro, which (to this native-English speaker) appears to eliminate the previous confusion and ambiguity. if you think I have it wrong, do not hesitate to tell me. Un school 23:01, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Riot in the prisons

Brazil recently faced a riot crisis in prisons, which began on the first day of the year, and that culminated in a series of structural and political problems for solving the situation, but I think it unnecessary to put here in the header of article about Manaus, because this was not the only town Brazilian facing this obstacle.^[1]^[2] --wu22222 • (talk to me) 19:04, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

^ The New York Times — Riot Police Try to Quell Continuing Violence in Brazilian Prison JAN. 19, 2017
^ World Digest: Jan. 15, 2017 — The Washington Post BRAZIL Death toll rises to 27 in more prison riots

Agreed fully with this. Yet the anon user continues to remove them because simply put, he doesn't appreciate viable sources at all. VGN34D (talk) 22:46, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You “agree” with him, yet missed his point entirely. I already asked this: why a prison escape is relevant in the introduction section of the city's article? Are you even Brazilian? --170.254.144.84 (talk) 14:50, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:VGN34D and ip 170.254.144.84, responding to IP's question, made for another user, I'm from Brazil and I did make just put the references. On the first day of the year, the news had a lot of repercussions off Brazil, the problem is that was a tremendous misunderstanding maybe of some only authors, put the topic in the header of the article, already exists another article talking about that same topic that happened not only in the city but in other of Brazil and so put it here generates a situation very misguided. That's why I think unnecessary put here. --wu22222 • (MSG) 21:24, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's exactly what I argued when I deleted the reference from the header. But given that VGN34D isn't even Brazilian (as presumed), he must have thought about the event as a 9/11 of sorts that must be in the header of the article. Actually, if you go to the New York's article, there's not a single mention about the biggest terror attack in history in the header. Yet, the 'gentleman' here insists that a prison escape have to be part of Manaus' header. So there you have it. --170.254.144.84 (talk) 15:19, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Pará

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[1] The New York Times — Riot Police Try to Quell Continuing Violence in Brazilian Prison JAN. 19, 2017

[2] World Digest: Jan. 15, 2017 — The Washington Post BRAZIL Death toll rises to 27 in more prison riots

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