Uarini is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

located in the

Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

Amazonas Amazonas may refer to: Places * Amazon River, known as ''Amazonas'' in Spanish and Portuguese *Amazonas (Brazilian state), Brazil * Amazonas Department, Colombia * Department of Amazonas, Peru * Amazonas (Venezuelan state), Venezuela Other uses * ...

. According to estimates of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), its population was 13,690 inhabitants in 2020. Its area is 10,246 km². The municipality contains 38% of the

Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve The Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá) is an extractive reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It contains an area of almost untouched Amazon rainforest inhabited by communities that rely on manioc far ...

, created in 2001.

History

It has its history linked to the history of

Tefé Tefé, known in early accounts as Teffé, is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Location Tefé is located about 525 km by air or 595 km by river to the west of Manaus on the south bank of the Rio Solimões (th ...

, which goes back to the village founded at the end of century XVII by the Jesuit

Samuel Fritz Samuel Fritz SJ (9 April 1654 – 20 March 1725, 1728 or 1730) was a Czech Jesuit missionary, noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin. He spent most of his life preaching to Indigenous communities in the western Amazo ...

. Until the end of the seventeenth century, disputes between the Spaniards and the Portuguese overlapped in the territory, only consolidating under the military occupation of Portugal in 1790. As a municipality, Tefé came to possess an area of 500,000 km². From the middle of the 19th century onwards, dismemberment of its territory began, giving rise to the new municipalities of

São Paulo de Olivença São Paulo de Olivença is a community and a municipality near the western edge of the state of Amazonas near the tri-country border area in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the ...

Coari Coari (''Choary'') is a Brazilian municipality in the Amazon region. Location The municipal seat of Coari is one of the largest cities of the Amazonas state. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Coari. The area has reserves of oil an ...

, Fonte Boa, São Felipe (now Eirunepé), Xibauá (now Carauari) Japurá and Maraã. At the end of 1981 Tefé had an administrative structure in which five sub-districts were planned: Tefé, Caiambé, Alvarães, Jarauá and Uarini.

Economy

* Primary Sector ** ''Agriculture:'' is the most productive economic activity, with special emphasis for the culture of the

cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated a ...

, from which the

flour Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many c ...

of Uarini is made. The brown-nut is in 2nd place in the economy. It has crops of rice, beans, jute, mallow, corn and sugarcane between temporary crops and, mango, avocado, banana, orange and lemon among permanent crops. ** Livestock '':'' in economic terms livestock has insignificant role. ** ''Poultry:'' practiced in essentially domestic molds, aimed at subsistence and local consumption, not generating income for families. ** ''Plant

Extractivism Extractivism is the process of extracting natural resources from the Earth to sell on the world market. It exists in an economy that depends primarily on the extraction or removal of natural resources that are considered valuable for exportation w ...

: it'' reaches its greatest expression in the exploitation of native rubber, Brazil nut and

wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of ligni ...

. * Secondary Sector ** ''Industries:'' pottery, baking, carpentry, furniture and metallurgy. * Tertiary sector ** ''Retail:'' retailer. Of the 5 counties in the country that had decreases in the HDI between 1991 and 2000, three are from

: Uarini, whose HDI increased from 0.611 to 0.599; Silves, from 0.684 to 0.675; And São Sebastião do Uatumã , from 0.661 to 0.659. This occurred solely because of decreases registered in the dimension of

income Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. Income is difficult to define conceptually and the definition may be different across fields. F ...

, which were not offset by the positive increments observed in the dimensions longevity and education .

References

Municipalities in Amazonas (Brazilian state) Populated places on the Amazon {{AmazonasBR-geo-stub