|
Anajás
Anajás is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 29,688 people. The area of the municipality is 6,921.709 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. References Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub ... [...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 Atlantic Ocean. From approximately 400 BC to 1600 AD, Marajó was the site of an advanced Pre-Columbian 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 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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 Ped sexo 100 anos (escrevido por Carlos) a (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. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon. 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, 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 upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber (extracted from natural rubber tree groves), cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, and minerals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Countries
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] |
Regions Of Brazil
Brazil is geopolitics, geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which are formed by the federative units of Brazil. Although officially recognized, the division is merely academic, considering geographic, social and economic factors, among others, and has no political effects other than orientating Federal-level government programs. Under the state level, there are also mesoregions of Brazil, mesoregions and microregions of Brazil, microregions. The five regions North Region *Area: 3,689,637.9 km2 (45.27%) *Population: 17,707,783 (4,6 people/km2; 6.2%; 2016) *Gross domestic product, GDP: Brazilian real, R$ 308 billion / United States dollar, US$94,8 billion (2016; 4.7%) (Economy of Brazil, 5th) *Climate: Equatorial *States: Acre (state), Acre, Amapá, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins (state), Tocantins *Largest Cities: Manaus (2,094,391); Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States Of Brazil The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which together form the Federative Republic of Brazil. There are 26 states (') and one federal district ('). The states are generally based on historical, conventi |
