Breves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state 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 ...

, on the island of

Marajó Marajó () is a large coastal island in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is the main and largest of the islands in the Marajó Archipelago. Marajó Island is separated from the mainland by Marajó Bay, Pará River, smaller rivers (especially ...

. Its population is estimated to be 103,497 people. The area of the municipality is 9,550.454 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion

and to the microregion of ''Furos de Breves''. The municipality is contained in the

Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area The Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Arquipélago do Marajó) is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects the Marajó Archipelago, made up of marine fluvial is ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region. It contains the

Mapuá Extractive Reserve The Mapuá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Mapuá) is an extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Mapuá Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Breves, Pará. It is on the island of Marajó to the north ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2005. The city is served by Breves Airport.

Climate

The climate is

tropical rainforest Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as ''lowland equa ...

equatorial Equatorial may refer to something related to: *Earth's equator **the tropics, the Earth's equatorial region **tropical climate *the Celestial equator ** equatorial orbit **equatorial coordinate system ** equatorial mount, of telescopes * equatorial ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...

: ''Af'') with high rainfall and high temperature all year round.

References

Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub