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  1. Capital of Amazonas, Brazil, on the Rio
  2. Negro, near its confluence with the Amazon;
  3. population (1980) 612,000. It can be reached
  4. by sea-going vessels, although 1,600 km/1,000
  5. mi from the Atlantic. Formerly a centre of
  6. the rubber trade, it developed as a tourist
  7. centre in the 1970s.
  8.