Tabatinga

Tabatinga, originally Forte de Sao Francisco Xavier de Tabatinga, is a municipality within the Tres Fronteiras vicinity of Western Amazonas. It is positioned in the Brazilian kingdom of Amazonas. Its population become 59,684 and its area is 3,225 km² Together with the neighbouring Colombian town of Leticia and the Peruvian town of Santa Rosa de Yavari, the urban place has extra than 100,000 citizens spread along the Amazon river.

The first Portuguese settlement in the vicinity become founded within the 18th century as a navy outpost. It became an independent municipality on February 1, 1983. Formerly, it was a part of the Municipality of Benjamin Constant. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alto Solimoes. Due to the big border with Colombia and Peru, Tabatinga is considered, via the federal police and the Brazilian Army, one of the primary entry points of cocaine in Brazil. It changed into hooked up as a Portuguese military outpost Forte de Sao Francisco Xavier de Tabatinga in 1766.