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Amambai
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Amambai
Total population
39,325
Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Amambai is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the Central-West region of Brazil. It is part of the immediate geographic region of Amambai and the intermediate geographic region of Dourados, according to the current regional division of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
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History
According to the IBGE's historical account, the first exploration of the region was carried out by the bandeirante Aleixo Garcia, and settlement began around 1580 with the establishment of Spanish Jesuit missions, which were destroyed by bandeirante expeditions from 1628 onward. Clashes between bandeirantes and Castilians dragged on for decades, and the area was part of the territory of the Iguatemi Military Colony, maintained until 1777, when it was attacked by Castilian forces commanded by Agostinho Fernandes de Pinedo, governor of Paraguay; the First Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed the same year, put an end to the armed clashes. With the creation of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul by federal complementary law No. 31 of October 11, 1977, the municipality became part of the new federative unit.
Geography
Amambai is located in southwestern Mato Grosso do Sul, within the former Southwest Mato Grosso do Sul mesoregion and the Dourados microregion. In the IBGE's current regional division, it belongs to the immediate region of Amambai and the intermediate region of Dourados. The municipality lies in a region of gently undulating relief, where the "Campos de Vacaria" and the "Mata de Dourados" predominate. The municipal territory borders Aral Moreira, Caarapó, Coronel Sapucaia, Iguatemi, Juti and Tacuru; the configuration of the boundaries can be consulted in the IBGE territorial mesh. The municipality has an area of , making it the 25th largest in the state by territorial area. According to 2014 data from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), the average temperature is and the average annual rainfall ranges from , with the rainiest months from November to March and the driest from July to September. The local geology is represented by basalt and basalt–andesite flows of the Serra Geral Formation, of tholeiitic affiliation, interbedded with sandstone lenses at the base and diabase dikes and sills, of Cretaceous age and origin linked to fissural magmatism. The topography of the urban area has elevations ranging between 408 and 508 meters, with slopes predominantly toward the Cabeceira da Lagoa and Paduí streams. The municipality belongs to the Paraná Hydrographic Region, and the municipal seat lies within the Amambai Planning and Management Unit (UPG), which has minimum flows between 10.8 and 18.1 m³/s near the headwaters and maximum values reaching 326 m³/s in the lower stretches, in the months from November to January; the main use of the water resource in the unit is animal watering. The Amambaí River, a right-bank tributary of the Paraná River, has its…
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Geography
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Nearby places in Mato Grosso do Sul
- Caarapó41.6 mi away · pop. 30,612
- Fátima do Sul68 mi away · pop. 20,609
- Japorã75.1 mi away · pop. 8,148
- Eldorado76 mi away · pop. 11,386
- Glória de Dourados79.5 mi away · pop. 10,444
- Mundo Novo82.8 mi away · pop. 19,193
- Ivinhema104.9 mi away · pop. 27,821
- Vira-mão116.7 mi away
- Campeiro136.9 mi away
- Batayporã136.9 mi away · pop. 10,712
- Retiro Velho137.7 mi away
- Santa Guilhermina138.3 mi away
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 5000609
- UF
- MS
- Mesorregião
- Sudoeste de Mato Grosso do Sul
- Microrregião
- Dourados
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • IBGE — Brazilian national statistics, via servicodados.ibge.gov.br (official municipal code, UF, mesorregião, microrregião, region)
- • IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics — servicodados.ibge.gov.br