It has its history linked to the history of Tefé, which goes back to the village founded at the end of century XVII by the Jesuit Samuel Fritz . Until the end of the seventeenth century, disputes between the Spaniards and the Portuguese overlapped in the territory, only consolidating under the military occupation of Portugal in 1790. As a municipality, Tefé came to possess an area of 500,000 km2. From the middle of the 19th century onwards, dismemberment of its territory began, giving rise to the new municipalities of São Paulo de Olivença, Coari, Fonte Boa, São Felipe (now Eirunepé), Xibauá (now Carauari) Japurá and Maraã.[4]
At the end of 1981 Tefé had an administrative structure in which five sub-districts were planned: Tefé, Caiambé, Alvarães, Jarauá and Uarini.[4]
Economy
Primary Sector
Agriculture: is the most productive economic activity, with special emphasis for the culture of the cassava, from which the flour of Uarini is made. The brown-nut is in 2nd place in the economy. It has crops of rice, beans, jute, mallow, corn and sugarcane between temporary crops and, mango, avocado, banana, orange and lemon among permanent crops.
Livestock: in economic terms livestock has insignificant role.
Poultry: practiced in essentially domestic molds, aimed at subsistence and local consumption, not generating income for families.
Plant Extractivism: it reaches its greatest expression in the exploitation of native rubber, Brazil nut and wood.
Secondary Sector
Industries: pottery, baking, carpentry, furniture and metallurgy.
Tertiary sector
Retail: retailer.
Of the 5 counties in the country that had decreases in the HDI between 1991 and 2000, three are from Amazonas : Uarini, whose HDI increased from 0.611 to 0.599; Silves, from 0.684 to 0.675; And São Sebastião do Uatumã, from 0.661 to 0.659. This occurred solely because of decreases registered in the dimension of income, which were not offset by the positive increments observed in the dimensions longevity and education.
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