Santa Cruz do Arari 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. The term ''municipality' ...

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 10,314 people. The area of the municipality is 1,074.854 km². 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 the microregion of Arari. In 2010, the mayor was Marcelo José Pamplona Beltrão. The

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HDI, or

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, Education Index, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income i ...

, score for Santa Cruz do Arari is 0.63. Nearby Lake Arari is a large lake located on the island

, which is a tourist attraction and the home of a wide variety of avian life. 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.

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Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub

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