Presidente Figueiredo

Presidente Figueiredo
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Location of the municipality inside Amazonas
Coordinates: 2°1′2″S 60°1′30″W / 2.01722°S 60.02500°WCoordinates: 2°1′2″S 60°1′30″W / 2.01722°S 60.02500°W
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Amazonas
Time zone	BRT (UTC−4)
• Summer (DST)	DST no longer used (UTC−4)

Presidente Figueiredo is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 30,978 (2013) and its area is 25,422 km².^[1]

Conservation

The municipality contains the 374,700 hectares (926,000 acres) Caverna do Maroaga Environmental Protection Area, established in 1990.^[2] It contains part of the 938,720 hectares (2,319,600 acres) Uatumã Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2002.^[3] It also holds about 2% of the Rio Negro Left Bank Environmental Protection Area, a 611,008 hectares (1,509,830 acres) sustainable use conservation area created in 1995.^[4]

References

1. "Amazonas » Presidente Figueiredo". IBGE. 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
2. APA Caverna do Maroaga (Presidente Figueiredo) (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-20
3. Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Biológica do Uatumã (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-04-18
4. APA Margem Esquerda do Rio Negro (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-28