State of Amazonas

the state of amazonas, brazil, is located in the northwestern corner of the country.it has 1.5 million square kilometers, 3.34 million inhabitants, and 98% of its territory covered by native forests. the largest state in brazil has the largest tropical forest in the world with 98% of its area preserved. joining its ecological potential to a sustainability-based business policy, the state capital has become the 6th richest city in the country. a part of this success is due to the manaus industrial hub, a model for a regional development that shelters several national and international companies, generating over a 100 thousand direct jobs and a 30-billion-dollar revenue in 2008. state public policies are geared towards the improvement in quality living standards and sustainable development. examples of this are investments in programs such as the green free trade zone and the forest allowance; the manaus stream social and environmmental program (prosamin, in portuguese); the construction