Bananal (micro-region)
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:''See Bananal for namesakes'' The Microregion of Bananal () is a
microregion Microregion is a designation for territorial entities. Austria Brazil Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer A microregion is a geographic region of a size between that of a community and that of a district.p. 18, "What's in a Region? Southeast Europ ...
in the east of
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,
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. It is the easternmost microregion of the state, bordered by the state of
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to the east.


Municipalities

The microregion consists of the following municipalities:Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
territorial division. * Bananal city *
Arapeí Arapeí is a Brazilian municipality of the eastern part of the state of São Paulo. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The population is 2,460 (2020 est.) in an area of 156.90 km². Its bordering cities ...
* Areias *
São José do Barreiro São José do Barreiro (''São José'' in Portuguese means Saint Joseph) is a municipality in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 4,144 (2020 est.) in an area of 570.69 km2. Geography São José do Barreiro is ...
*
Silveiras Silveiras is a municipality in São Paulo State, Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The population is 6,339 (2020 est.) in an area of 414.78 km². The elevation is 615 m. The municipality conta ...


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See also

*
Bananal Island Bananal Island (, ) is a large river island formed from the bisection of the Araguaia River, in southwestern Tocantins, Brazil. The island is formed by a fork in a very flat section of the Araguaia; the western stream of the fork retains the n ...
* the former Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bananal Bananal {{MesoregionSãoJosédosCampos-geo-stub