Bacabal is a city in

Maranhão Maranhão () is a States of Brazil, state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of and it is divided into 217 municipalities. Clockwise from north, it ...

, Brazil. It is located approximately 250 km south of the state capital São Luís. The city proper has a population of 104,633 (

IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil. IBGE performs a decennial national cen ...

2018 estimate). It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bacabal. The municipality contains a small part of the

Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area The Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area () is an environmental protection area in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. It includes large areas of wetlands, and was designated a Ramsar site in 2000. The traditional population lives in the ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.

Climate

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Municipalities in Maranhão {{Maranhão-geo-stub