Rubber also helped Manaus earn its nickname, the Paris of the Tropics. Rubber made it the richest city in South America during the late 1800s. The Solimões and Negro rivers meet just east of Manaus and join to form the Amazon River (using the Brazilian definition of the river elsewhere, Solimões is considered the upper part of the Amazon ). It has a cathedral, opera house, zoological and botanical gardens, an ecopark, and regional and native peoples museums. Manaus also exports Brazil nuts, rubber, jute, and rosewood oil. Its manufactures include electronics, chemical products, and soap there are distilling and ship construction industries. The city has a free port and an international airport. Currently, its main economic engine is the Industrial Park of Manaus, a Free Economic Zone. It was known at the beginning of the century as Heart of the Amazon and City of the Forest. Manaus is located in the center of the world's largest rainforest, and home to the National Institute of Amazonian Research, being the most important center for scientific studies in the Amazon region and for international sustainability issues. On September 4, 1856, it returned to its original name. It was elevated to a town in 1832 with the name of 'Manaus', an altered spelling of the indigenous Manaós peoples, and legally transformed into a city on October 24, 1848, with the name of Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro, Portuguese for 'The City of the Margins of the Black River'. The city was founded in 1669 as the Fort of São José do Rio Negro. It is the only city in the Amazon Rainforest with a population over 1 million people. It is situated near the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. Located at the east center of the state, the city is the center of the Manaus metropolitan area and the largest metropolitan area in the North Region of Brazil by urban landmass.

It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km 2 (4,402 sq mi).

Manaus ( Portuguese: ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

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