History of Amazonas

The Manaus Free Trade Zone (ZFM) was idealized by Federal Congressman Francisco Pereira da Silva and created by Law Nº 3,173 of June 6, 1957, as a Free Port. What é the Manaus Free Trade Zone Project? The Manaus Free Trade Zone (ZFM) é a development model ...

Book tells the storyória of the theft of rubber tree seeds from Brazil "By this time, the legend of Henry Wickham had become icônical, and his fraud in the service of the queen and the countryís was part of the históries of the Império. In the newspapers and magazine, his wrinkled, sunburned face looked on in ...

From the rubber plantations of the forest à buildção of cosmopolitan cities, látex éflagship of the Brazilian economy between the end of the século XIX and início do século XX. The rubber was natural and produced from the sap of a tree called the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), which was responsible for writing part of the history of Brazil, ...

Manaus emerged around a fortress made of clay and stones, without a moat in the middle of the XVII century. It was built by the Portuguese in 1669, the Forte São José da Barra do Rio Negro, served mainly to combat the troops of the Lusitanian enemies when the Amazon region became a target of military interests.