Place:Amazonas, Venezuela

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Place Information
Name
Amazonas
Alternate names
Amazonas     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Estado Amazonas     (Wikipedia)
Type
State
Coordinates
3.5°N 66°W
Located in
Venezuela
Contained Places

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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
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Estado Amazonas is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided.

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. Amazonas State covers a total surface area of 180,145 km² and, in 2007, had a population of 142,200. Its density is of 0.8 habitants per km².

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