Ponta de Pedras is a Brazilian
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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located in the state of
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 ...
. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 31,549 people. The area of the municipality is 3,365.126 km
2. The city belongs to the mesoregion
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 M ...
and to the microregion of ''Arari''.
The municipality is contained in the
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 ...
, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region.
Notable people
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Dalcídio Jurandir (1909), novelist, winner of the
Machado de Assis Prize
See also
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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
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References
Municipalities in Pará
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