Barcelos

Barcelos, additionally Barcellos, formerly Mariua, is a municipality placed in the State of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Its population was 32,169 and its area is 122,476 square kilometres, making it the second one largest municipality in Brazil, equivalent in length to New York nation within the United States and slightly larger than North Korea. The town is served by Barcelos Airport with scheduled offerings to Manaus.

Since 1994, Barcelos has been the host of an annual competition celebrating ornamental fish, which is a extensive supply of income for the vicinity. Project Piaba makes use of Barcelos as the start line for their annual studies expedition into the Rio Negro location. The municipality consists of part of the Amana Sustainable Development Reserve. It additionally carries part of the Amazonas National Forest. It contains the 833,352 hectares Rio Unini Extractive Reserve, created in 2006.

Barcelos turned into originally named Mariua, village of the Manaus Indians. When the captaincy of Sao Jose do Rio Negro became shaped in 1755, Francisco Xavier de Mendonca Furtado, Governor General of kingdom of Grao Para e Maranhao chose the aldeia de Sao Jose do Javari, a village founded through Carmelite Friar Matias Sao Boaventuras Jesuits in 1728 near the mouth of the Javari River, as its capital. It became the capital of the captaincy of Sao Jose do Rio Negro from 1755-1791, and once more from 1799-1808.