Amazon Peoples' Cultural Center

Amazon Peoples' Cultural Center

Inaugurated in May 2007, the Cultural Center of the Peoples of the Amazon is a space that aims to value, diffuse, and disseminate the information generated and produced about the countries of the Continental Amazon: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and the French overseas territory, French Guyana.

It has spaces that identify and popularize the culture and knowledge of preservation and valorization of cultural identities and the natural heritage of the Amazon.

Built and managed by the Amazonas State Government, through the State Secretariat of Culture, the Cultural Center for the Peoples of the Amazon - CCPA is a tribute to the Traditional Peoples of the Amazon and an evocation of its ethno-cultural diversity.

The CCPA has a large sociocultural space, modernly equipped to serve the following purposes:

• - Meetings of a technical and scientific nature;
• - Events and receptions of personalities and authorities related to the Culture of the Amazon;
• - Didactic and pedagogical activities, aimed at children and teenagers;
• - Presentations of shows in the areas of music, dance and theater;
• - Shows and events in general;
• - Exhibitions of traditional dances of great popular appeal.

For that, it has a dome with about 150 seats and an auditorium with capacity for 70 people, besides a large arena for shows with capacity for 17,000 people seated.

Activities

The Centro Cultural dos Povos da Amazônia offers visitors a diversity of references and manifestations of the continental Amazonian natural, artistic, and cultural heritage, catering to all social strata and age groups. It develops and promotes free research activities, having published several titles related to the Amazon.

The Center also makes research available through the collections located in the Mário Ypiranga Monteiro Memorial and Library, the Arthur Reis Library and the Samuel Benchimol Documentation Center, as well as spaces for the general public to visit, with temporary and permanent exhibitions, among which are representative of Amazonian daily life, such as the Maloca Aruak; The Maloca Aruak; the Casa do Caboclo; the Sugar Cane Mill; the Xapono Yanomami; the Barracão do Guaraná; the Casa da Farinha; the Tapiri for Smoking Rubber; the Tapiri do Seringueiro, as well as the representation of regional transportation, through canoes. It is part of its facilities also the Museum of the North Man that, since the year 2011 came to be administered by the Government of the State of Amazonas, through the State Secretariat of Culture.

❱ Address: Av. Silves, 2.222 - Industrial District I - Manaus, Am - Brazil - CEP: 69.073-270

❱ Phone: +55 (92) 2125-5300 / 2125-5301

❱ Email: [email protected]

❱ Operation: From Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm.

❱ Admission: Free

❱ Technical Structure ⇓

Guided Tours | Photos allowed Visitors' restrooms

Accessibility for the physically, visually and hearing impaired |

❱ Location ⇓

❱ Video ⇓

Attention. Times and days are subject to change without notice.

Source: cultura.am.gov.br|SEC