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Altamira, Pará
Altamira is one of one hundred and forty-four municipalities in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. It has an area of , making it the largest municipality by area both in Pará state and Brazil, and until 2009 it was the world's largest municipal subdivision. It occupies 12.8% of the state's territory, 1.8% of Brazil's territory and 0.8% of South America. It also covers a more extensive area than 104 countries, and is comparable to the US state of Missouri or Florida. Altamira Municipality encompasses the Altamira city and district, the seat of local government, whose majority population lives in urban area, and nine other mostly rural districts (most of those covered by the Amazon rainforest), whose urban populations are minorities, and live in inhabited areas spaced by tens or hundreds of kilometers. According to the 2010 Brazilian National Census the municipality had 99,075 inhabitants which grew to 115,969 at the 2020 Census, making a density of only 0.73 inhabitants p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xingu River
The Xingu River ( ; pt, Rio Xingu, ; Mẽbêngôkre: ''Byti'', ) is a river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in the Amazon basin, accounting for about 5% of its water. __TOC__ Description and history The first Indigenous Park in Brazil was created in the river basin by the Brazilian government in the early 1960s. This park marks the first indigenous territory recognized by the Brazilian government and it was the world's largest indigenous preserve on the date of its creation. Currently, fourteen tribes live within Xingu Indigenous Park, surviving on natural resources and extracting from the river most of what they need for food and water. The Brazilian government is building the Belo Monte Dam, which will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam, on the Lower Xingu. Construction of this dam is under legal challenge by environment and indigenous groups, who assert the dam would have negative envi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serra Do Pardo National Park
The Serra do Pardo National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional da Serra do Pardo) is a National park in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Serra do Pardo National Park is divided between the municipalities of São Félix do Xingu (51.28%) and Altamira (48.72%) in the state of Pará. It covers an area of . The park takes its name from the mountain range that stretches along the Pardo River. The mountains have an average height of and rise to a maximum altitude of . The Pardo River defines the northwest boundary of the park. On the north, the park is bounded by the Rio Xingu Extractive Reserve. The west and south of the park adjoin the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area. To the northwest, it adjoins the Terra do Meio Ecological Station. To the east, it is bounded by the Xingu River. The park is part of the Terra do Meio Mosaic, a grouping of protected areas. History The park was used for rubber extraction until the rubber crisis of the 1950s, then was occupied by s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nascentes Da Serra Do Cachimbo Biological Reserve
The Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo) is a biological reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. The reserve protects an area in the transition between the Cerrado and Amazon biomes, supporting highly diverse flora and fauna including many endemic species. It is accessible via the BR-163 highway, and is among the federal conservation units in the Amazon Legal that has suffered most from deforestation. Location The Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve has an area of . The reserve covers parts of the municipalities of Altamira and Novo Progresso in the state of Pará. The reserve is adjacent to the BR-163 highway and abuts the Panará and Menkragnoti indigenous territories. The Serra do Cachimbo complex is partly a continuous mass of mountains with a south west alignment, partly plateau with flat-bottomed valleys. Altitude ranges from above sea level. Erosion has created ridges and ravines. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Do Meio Ecological Station
Terra do Meio Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica da Terra do Meio) is an ecological station (ESEC) in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Terra do Meio Ecological Station has an area of . It covers parts of the municipalities of Altamira and São Félix do Xingu in the state of Pará. The station covers parts of the lowlands and the residual plateau of the southern Amazon. It lies between the Xingu River and its tributary the Iriri River, which runs through the station from south to north. The Iriri rises in the Serra do Cachimbo and flows for before joining the Xingu. The rivers vary greatly in volume depending on the season, and in the dry season include waterfalls, rocks and rapids. The ESEC borders the Serra do Pardo National Park to the southeast. The proposed South Amazon Ecological Corridor would link the ESEC to other protected areas and indigenous territories in the region. Environment The Terra do Meio Ecological Station is in the Amazon biome. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamanxim National Park
The Jamanxim National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional do Jamanxim) is a national park 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 a ..., Brazil. Location The Jamanxim National Park covers of Amazon rainforest. It is in parts of the municipalities of Altamira, Pará, Altamira, Itaituba and Trairão in the state of Pará. The Trairão National Forest lies to the north. The park mostly lies in the Jamanxim-Xingu depression, with relatively flat terrain ranging from in altitude. The Southern Pará plateau rises to . Two small areas of the Tapajós Plateau in the west contain hills rising from . The park contains the sub-basins of the Jamanxim River, Jamanxim, Tocantins River (Jamanxim River), Tocantins and Aruri River, Aruri rivers within the Tapajós basin. It also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altamira National Forest
Altamira National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional Altamira) is a national forest in the state of Pará Brazil. Location The Altamira National Forest is in the Amazon biome. It has an area of . It covers parts of the municipalities of Altamira, Itaituba and Trairão in the state of Pará. The forest lies in the Amazon lowlands, with altitudes from . The forest spans the watershed between the Tapajós and the Xingu River. It contains part of the Curuaés River in the Xingu basin. The annual plan of 2009 authorized the grant of four forest management units totalling , which were allocated to two companies with contracts expected to last 40 years and to create about 900 formal jobs, 80% of which would be local. Environment Average annual rainfall is . Temperatures range from with an average of . Vegetation is mostly open rainforest with lianas, but also includes dense submontane rainforest and alluvial forest. Rapid ecological assessment studies found 212 species of flora in 145 ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon River
The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon basin's most distant source, until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru. The Mantaro and Apurímac rivers join, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River, which in turn meets the Marañón River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, forming what countries other than Brazil consider to be the main stem of the Amazon. Brazilians call this section the Solimões River above its confluence with the Rio Negro forming what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of Waters ( pt, Encontro das Águas) at Manaus, the largest city on the river. The Amazon River has an average discharge of abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Highlands
The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau ( pt, Planalto Brasileiro) are an extensive geography, geographical region, covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all approximately half of the country's land area, or some 4,500,000 km2 (1,930,511 sq mi). In addition, the vast majority of Brazil's population (190,755,799; ''2010 census'') lives in the highlands or on the narrow coastal region immediately adjacent to it. Ancient basaltic lava flows gave birth to much of the region. However, the time of dramatic geophysics, geophysical activity is long past, as there is now no earthquake, seismic or volcano, volcanic activity. Erosion has also played a large part in shaping the Highlands, forming extensive sedimentary deposits and wearing down the mountains. The Brazilian Highlands are recognized for the great diversity to be found there: within the region there are several different biomes, vastly different climate, climatic conditions, many typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itaipu Dam
The Itaipu Dam ( pt, Barragem de Itaipu , es, Represa de Itaipú ) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The construction of the dam was first contested by Argentina, but the negotiations and resolution of the dispute ended up setting the basis for Argentine–Brazilian integration later on. The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site. In the Guarani language, means "the sounding stone". The Itaipu Dam's hydroelectric power plant produced the second-most electricity of any in the world as of 2020, only surpassed by the Three Gorges Dam plant in electricity production. Completed in 1984, it is a binational undertaking run by Brazil and Paraguay at the border between the two countries, north of the Friendship Bridge. The project ranges from Foz do Iguaçu, in Brazil, and Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, in the south to Guaíra and Salto del Guairá in the north. The installed generati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW) since 2012. The dam generates an average 95±20 TWh of electricity per year, depending on annual amount of precipitation in the river basin. After the extensive monsoon rainfalls of 2020, the dam's annual production nearly reached 112 TWh, breaking the previous world record of ~103 TWh set by Itaipu Dam in 2016. The dam body was completed in 2006. The power plant of the dam project was completed and fully functional as of July 4, 2012, when the last of the main water turbines in the underground plant began production. Each main water turbine has a capacity of 700 MW. Coupling the dam's 32 main turbines with two smaller generators (50 MW each) to pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altamira Airport
Altamira Airport is the airport serving Altamira, Brazil. During a transitional period, the airport is jointly operated by Infraero and AENA. History The airport was commissioned in 1979. Due to the construction of nearby Belo Monte Dam, Altamira Airport underwent a major renovation, including the extension of the runway, and enlargement of the apron and passenger terminal. The renovation began by the end of 2011. Previously operated by Infraero, on August 18, 2022 the consortium AENA won a 30-year concession to operate the airport. Airlines and destinations Accidents and incidents *6 June 1990: a TABA Fairchild Hiller FH-227 registration PT-ICA flying from Belém-Val de Cans to Altamira, while on approach to land under fog at Altamira, descended below the approach path, collided with trees and crashed 850m short of the runway. Of the 41 passengers and crew, 23 died. *25 January 1993: a TABA Fairchild Hiller FH-227 registration PT-LCS operating a cargo flight from Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
