Carauari

Carauari
Carauari
Municipality
	Flag Seal
	Location of the municipality inside Amazonas
	Carauari Location in Brazil
	Coordinates: 4°52′58″S 66°53′45″W / 4.88278°S 66.89583°W
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Amazonas
Population (2020)
• Total	28,508
Time zone	UTC−4 (AMT)

Carauari is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 28,508 (2020)^[1] and its area is 25,767 km².^[2]

The city is served by Carauari Airport.

Geography

The town is in the Juruá-Purus moist forests ecoregion.^[3] The municipality contains about 5% of the Tefé National Forest, created in 1989.^[4] The municipality contains 251,577 hectares (621,660 acres) Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve, created in 1997, on the left bank of the meandering Juruá River.^[5] It also contains the 632,949 hectares (1,564,050 acres) Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 2005.^[6]

Climate

Carauari has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with unpleasantly hot and humid weather year-round. Rainfall is significant throughout, although the period from June to August is drier than the remainder of the year.

Climate data for Carauari
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	30.0 (86.0)	30.4 (86.7)	30.5 (86.9)	30.2 (86.4)	30.9 (87.6)	30.0 (86.0)	30.0 (86.0)	31.5 (88.7)	31.9 (89.4)	31.5 (88.7)	31.0 (87.8)	30.6 (87.1)	30.7 (87.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)	25.9 (78.6)	26.4 (79.5)	26.4 (79.5)	26.2 (79.2)	26.4 (79.5)	25.8 (78.4)	25.4 (77.7)	26.2 (79.2)	26.7 (80.1)	26.6 (79.9)	26.4 (79.5)	26.3 (79.3)	26.2 (79.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	21.9 (71.4)	22.4 (72.3)	22.3 (72.1)	22.3 (72.1)	21.9 (71.4)	21.7 (71.1)	20.9 (69.6)	21.0 (69.8)	21.5 (70.7)	21.8 (71.2)	21.9 (71.4)	22.0 (71.6)	21.8 (71.2)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	301 (11.9)	242 (9.5)	320 (12.6)	307 (12.1)	231 (9.1)	126 (5.0)	89 (3.5)	105 (4.1)	153 (6.0)	195 (7.7)	235 (9.3)	283 (11.1)	2,587 (101.9)
Source: "Carauari Climate". Climate Data.

References

^ IBGE 2020
^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Sears, Robin, South America: Amazon Basin, northwestern Brazil (NT0133), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-28{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^ FLONA de Tefé (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^ RESEX do Médio Juruá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-16{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^ RDS de Uacari (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

[1] IBGE 2020

[2] IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] Sears, Robin, South America: Amazon Basin, northwestern Brazil (NT0133), WWF: World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2017-03-28{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

[4] FLONA de Tefé (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

[5] RESEX do Médio Juruá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-16{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

[6] RDS de Uacari (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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