Tonantins
Sign in to saveTonantins is a municipality in the state of Amazonas in north-western Brazil. Its population was 18,897 as of 2020, all of which were Brazilians. It is on the Amazon River and is 867 km upstream (west) of Manaus, the state capital. The municipality is directly east of and overlaps parts of the Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station. It is only accessible via boat.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tonantins
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Feb 2024. Tonantins, Amazonas state, Brazil 01.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Tonantins river port in 2024
- Settlement.image_map
- Amazonas Municip Tonantins.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality inside Amazonas
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Amazonas
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 6,446
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 18,897
- Settlement.timezone
- AMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- −04:00
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- tonantinense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Amazonas
- Population
- 10034
- Area
- 6432.677
- Elevation
- 62
- Shares border with
- Santo Antônio do Içá
- Image
- TONANTISN(AM) - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 97
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- Commons category
- Tonantins
- Human Development Index
- 0.548
- electorate
- 9379
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tonantins is a municipality in the state of Amazonas in north-western Brazil. Its population was 18,897 as of 2020, all of which were Brazilians. It is on the Amazon River and is 867 km upstream (west) of Manaus, the state capital. The municipality is directly east of and overlaps parts of the Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station. It is only accessible via boat.
==Geography== ===Climate=== The temperature is almost always between 23 degrees Celsius (74 degrees Fahrenheit) and 31 degrees Celsius (87 degrees Fahrenheit). It is a rainforest humid climate, and the rainy season lasts 8.5 months per year, from mid-October to June.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tonantins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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