Manaus

Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas in northern Brazil. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2019 population of 2,182,763 distributed over a land area of about 4,401.97 square miles (11,401 km2). 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 situated near the confluence of the Negro and Amazon Rivers.

The city was founded in 1669 as the Fort of São José do Rio Negro. It was elevated to a town in 1832 with the name of "Manaus", an altered spelling of the indigenous Manaós peoples, and promoted to a city on 24 October 1848, with the name of Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro, commonly referred to as Barra. On September 4, 1856 it returned to its original name.

Manaus in "The Pugnacious Peacemaker"
Manaus was the largest city in the Tawantiinsuujuan Empire's eastern regions, being nearly as big as Kuuskoo. It was an important port on the Great River, but was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean by the Emirate of the dar-al Harb. In 1941, Ib Scoglund's diplomatic party stopped at Manaus, and found Governor Anta-Aklja to be very helpful in procuring their transportation to the Emirate's borders.