Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas, Brazil Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Atalaia do Norte ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History
Primarily inhabited the territory of the current municipality of Atalaia do Norte the Mangeronas, Ticunas, Marubas and Maias Indians. Of the last two, remnants still live in that territory. The Javari region was one of the last to be explored. Between 1864 and 1874, clashes took place in the region between the Indians and the staff of the Brazilian-Peruvian mixed commissions in charge of border demarcations. The oldest settlement center is Remate de Males, which was for several years, from 1898 to 1901 and from 1904 to 1928, the seat of the municipality of Benjamim Constant. The exact date of its foundation is not known. However, Anísio Jobim, in "Panoramas Amazônicos", informs that the village originated from a hut on the edge of Itecoai, where the son of a superior Brazilian officer lived, and that the name of Remate de Males was given in 1890, by Alfredo Raimundo de Oliveira Bastos, from Maranhão, who found in this place relative well-being, deciding to settle down as a finale to his ills. He then placed the sign "Remate de Males" on the facade of his shed, whose designation was extended everywhere. The name of Atalaia is justified because it is the most extreme center of the West, the guardhouse of the march to the West, in the words of Álvaro Maia, in a speech given in Remate de Males in 1943. District created with the name of Remate de Males, in 1938. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Atalaia do Norte, in 1955. Date of Installation: 02/23/1956 Former Names:
 * Remate de Males

Local Offices
Cartório Atalaia do Norte Av:Augusto Luzeiro, nº75 Centro Atalaia do Norte Atalaia do Norte 69650-000 Amazonas Telephone:97-34171604 Email:nilvanio.tezanor@tjam.jus.br

Other Institutions
Rua Augusto Luzeiro, s/n - Centro Telephone:(97) 3417-1191
 * Biblioteca Pública Municipal Antônio de Souza Braga

Rua Augusto Luzeiro, 65 - Centro 69650-000
 * Prefeitura Municipal