Place:Amazonas, Venezuela

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NameAmazonas
Alt namesAmazonassource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Estado Amazonassource: Wikipedia
TypeState
Coordinates3.5°N 66°W
Located inVenezuela
Contained Places
Inhabited place
El Oso
La Esmeralda
Maroa
Morganito
Puerto Ayacucho
Samariapo
San Carlos de Río Negro
San Fernando de Atabapo
San Juan de Manapiare
Santa Bárbara
Santa Rosa de Amanadona
Victorino
Yavita
Unknown
Atabapo
Atures
Guainia
Río Negro
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Amazonas State is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided. It covers nearly a fifth of the area of Venezuela, but has less than 1% of Venezuela's population.

The state capital is Puerto Ayacucho. The capital until the early 1900s was San Fernando de Atabapo. Although named after the Amazon River, most of the state is drained by the Orinoco River. Amazonas State covers 176,899 km² and, in 2007, had a population of 142,200. Its density is 0.8 inhabitants per km².

Amazonas has Venezuela's highest proportion of indigenous peoples of Venezuela; these make up only around 1.5% of the population nationwide, but the proportion is nearly 50% in Amazonas.

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