Bragança, Pará is a
municipality
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in the
state
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of
Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana a ...
in the
Northern region of
Brazil
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.
The municipality contains part of the
Tracuateua Marine Extractive Reserve
Tracuateua Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha de Tracuateua is a marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil.
It is used for small-scale farming and fishing, but the main activity is scavenging for crabs. The r ...
, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2005.
It contains the
Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2005.
History
The city was founded as New Bragança (after
Bragança, Portugal
Bragança (; mwl, Bergáncia), also known in English as Braganza (, also ), is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Terras de Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal. The population in ...
).
See also
*
List of municipalities in Pará
References
Municipalities in Pará
Populated coastal places in Pará
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