Uarini


Uarini is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. According to estimates of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, its population was 13, 520 inhabitants in 2019. Its area is 10,246 km².
The municipality contains 38% of the Baixo Juruá Extractive Reserve, created in 2001.

History

It has its history linked to the history of Tefé, which goes back to the village founded at the end of century XVII by the Jesuit Samuel Fritz. 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, Coari, Fonte Boa, São Felipe, Xibauá 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

Of the 5 counties in the country that had decreases in the HDI between 1991 and 2000, three are from Amazonas : 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, which were not offset by the positive increments observed in the dimensions longevity and education.