Urucará

Urucará
Municipality

Seal

Location of the municipality inside Amazonas
Urucará
Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 2°32′9″S 57°45′36″W / 2.53583°S 57.76000°W / -2.53583; -57.76000Coordinates: 2°32′9″S 57°45′36″W / 2.53583°S 57.76000°W / -2.53583; -57.76000
Country  Brazil
Region North
State Amazonas
Time zone UTC−4 (BRT)
  Summer (DST) UTC−4 (DST no longer used)

Urucará is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 22,639 (2005) and its area is 27,905 km².[1]

The municipality contains part of the 938,720 hectares (2,319,600 acres) Uatumã Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2002.[2]

References

  1. IBGE -
  2. Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Biológica do Uatumã (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-04-18


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