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Pictures: 'Amazon Venice' scrambles to stay above floods

Twenty of Amazonas' municipalities are in a situation of emergency

Published: May 15, 2021 15:52 Compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor and with inputs from AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_61442.jpg-12e59-1621076852161 — The rivers have been swelling for weeks in Brazil's Amazon region, and residents in a town that bills itself as `The Venice of Amazonas' traded motorcycles for canoes and are clambering atop fresh-laid planks inside their homes to stay dry. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_81766.jpg-70c55-1621076835063 — Residents navigate flooded streets in Anama, Amazonas state, Brazil. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of APTOPIX_Brazil_Amazon_Floods_71919.jpg-71fb2-1621076814228 — Anama, home to 14,000 people on a tributary of the Solimoes River that flows toward capital Manaus, is just one municipality of dozens in Amazonas state that has seen life upended by unusual rainfall. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_72652.jpg-4588d-1621076800377 — Amazonas's civil defense secretariat warned the flood could soon be biggest recorded in the last century, and said 350,000 people have already been affected. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_36622.jpg-4c196-1621076826720 — Twenty of Amazonas' municipalities are in a situation of emergency, and 22 have rivers spilling over their banks. The latter group includes capital Manaus, where people have built makeshift bridges. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of APTOPIX_Brazil_Amazon_Floods_07807.jpg-12978-1621076822575 — Dogs stand on a porch ledge above floodwater in Anama. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_50158.jpg-1517f-1621076830961 — The Negro River, which flows past Manaus to meet the Solimoes River, could reach its highest-ever level within days, the state's government said this week. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_75060.jpg-7a63d-1621076810270 — Increased precipitation is associated with the La Nina phenomenon, by which cooler-than-normal sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean impact global weather patterns. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_90027.jpg-67a51-1621076843624 — Noemia Ferreira Ribeiro stands on an elevated floor that was placed to avoid floodwater under her home in Anama. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_09130.jpg-ee6df-1621076795381 — Residents navigate flooded streets in Anama. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_23506.jpg-f7444-1621076805357 — A residents navigates through a flooded street in Anama. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_01880.jpg-6555c-1621076847467 — Residents build raised floors in a flooded home in Anama. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Brazil_Amazon_Floods_40123.jpg-c8494-1621076839342 — Residents navigate flooded streets in Anama. Image Credit: AP

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