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Afuá
Afuá is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 39,567 people. The area of the municipality is 8,372.772 km2. The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of ''Furos de Breves''. The municipality is contained in the Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region. The municipal seat lies at the mouth of the Cajari River where it enters the Vieira Grande Bay. The municipality contains the Charapucu State Park, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2010. The town has been off-limits to cars since 2002, as there is no space for cars on the island where the town is located. It has been called the Venice of the Amazon, because many of the homes are on stilt house, stilts. This is necessary because high waters in the Vieira Grande Bay causes the Afuá River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serraria Island, Pará
Serraria Island ( Portuguese: ''Ilha da Serraria''), also called Queimada (''Ilha Queimada''), is an island in the Brazilian state Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ..., located within the Amazon Delta. The island is part of the municipality of Afuá. The Western coast of the island lines the main channel of the Amazon River, opposite the city of Macapá. Because of the distances, inhabitants of Serraria Island seek most services like banks and schools in Macapá instead of Afuá. The Eastern coast of the island is on Vieira Grande Bay, which separates it from the island Marajó. The island is mostly covered with tropical rainforest. The main economic activity on the island is the production of açaí palm, açaí, followed by heart of palm, shrimps, oil seeds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieira Grande Bay
Vieira Grande Bay ( Portuguese: ''Baía do Vieira Grande'') is a bay off the Brazilian coast located in the state of Pará. The bay forms one of the main river channels in the Amazon Delta. The bay is fed in the South by the Jacaré Grande River and by a complex system of numerous river channels that are called ''furos'' in Portuguese. These channels form a link between the Amazon and the Vieira Grande Bay. The influence of the Amazon waters can be shown for example through the occurrence of the phytoplankton '' Thalassionema nitzschioides'' in the bay. Further downstream, the bay is lined on the Western side by a string of islands, of which Serraria is the largest. These islands separate the bay from the main channel of the Amazon. In the East, the bay is bordered by the North-Western coast of the island Marajó, where it touches the municipalities of Chaves and Afuá. The town of Afuá is built on stilts because high waters in the Bay cause the rivers surrounding it to rise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charapucu State Park
The Charapucu State Park () is a state park in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects an area of the island of Marajó at the mouth of the Amazon River, much of which is flooded by the river or the tides. The vegetation is typical of flooded rainforest, and fauna include several rare or endangered species. Location The Charapucu State Park is contained in the municipality of Afuá, Pará. It has an area of . The park is bounded by the Vieira Grande Bay to the north west. The Cajari River runs to the east of the park into the Vieira Grande Bay. The Furo Charapucu channel runs to the south of the park, connecting the Cajari River to another part of the Vieira Grande Bay. The park is contained within the Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1989 to protect the Marajó island and surrounding islands in the delta region where the Amazon and Tocantins rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Environment The park has an Amaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area
The Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area () is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects the Marajó Archipelago, made up of marine fluvial islands in the area where the Amazon and Tocantins rivers converge and flow into the Atlantic. Covering almost it is larger than some countries in Europe. The area is inhabited, but human activities are limited to some extent to reduce ecological damage. Location The Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area (APA) is divided between the Pará municipalities of Afuá (14.2%), Anajás (11.78%), Breves (16.15%), Cachoeira do Arari (5.21%), Chaves (22.44%), Curralinho (6.09%), Muaná (6.37%), Ponta de Pedras (5.7%), Salvaterra (1.75%), Santa Cruz do Arari (1.69%), Soure (5.94%) and São Sebastião da Boa Vista (2.67%). It has an area of . This makes it larger than some European countries. The APA includes the island of Marajó and about 3,000 other islands and islets to the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities In Pará
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Pará (PA), located in the North Region of Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population .... Pará is divided into 144 municipalities, which are grouped into 22 microregions, which are grouped into 6 mesoregions. accessed on December 15, 2011. Still shows only 143 municipalities, excluding Mojuí dos Campos (created in 2010) See also * Geography of Brazil * List of cities in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Macacos and Tajapuru), Companhia River, Jacaré Grande River, Vieira Grande Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. From approximately 400 BC to 1600 AD, Marajó was the site of an advanced pre-Cabraline society called the Marajoara culture, which may have numbered more than 100,000 people at its peak. Today, the island is known for its large water buffalo population, as well as the ''pororoca'' tidal bore periodically exhibited by high tides overcoming the usual complex hydrodynamic interactions in the surrounding rivers. It is the second-largest island in South America, and the 35th largest island in the world. With a land area of Marajó is comparable in size to Switzerland. Its maximum span is long and in perpendicular width. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Delta
The Amazon Delta (Portuguese language, Portuguese: delta do Amazonas) is a vast river delta formed by the Amazon River and the Tocantins River (through the Pará River distributary channel) in northern South America. It is located in the Federative units of Brazil, Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará and encompasses the Marajó Archipelago, with Marajó, Marajó Island as its largest island. The main cities located in the vicinity are Belém and Macapá, each with its respective metropolitan area. The Amazon Delta has a tropical climate with high humidity and high temperatures. It has a wet season with frequent flooding and a dry season where the delta dries out. These seasons shape the environment of the Amazon Delta and the life that lives there, such as the water buffalo for which Marajó Island is well known, three-toed sloths, three-toed sloth, capybara, giant anteater, giant otter, jaguar and Amazon river dolphin, pink river dolphins. References River deltas Geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stilt House
Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on Stilts (architecture), stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water. Stilt houses are built primarily as a protection against flooding; they also keep out vermin. The shady space under the house can be used for work or storage. Stilt houses are commonly found in Southeast Asia, Oceania, Central America, the Caribbean, northern parts of South America, the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Africa Stilted Granary, granaries are also a common feature in West Africa, e.g., in the Mandinka people, Malinke language regions of Mali and Guinea. Americas Stilt houses were also built by Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Amerindians in Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian times. ''Palafitos'' are especially widespread along the banks of the tropical river valleys of South America, notably the Amazon River, Amazon and Orinoco river systems. Stilt houses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the Marajó bay, near the estuary of the Amazon river. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, Brazil, North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at , second only to Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon rainforest. Pará produces Natural rubber, rubber ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
