Alenquer, Pará

Alenquer is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.[2][3][4][5] The town is located on the northern bank of the Amazon River, roughly across from the city of Santarém.

Alenquer
Municipality
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Alenquer is located in Pará
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Location in Brazil
Alenquer is located in Brazil
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Alenquer (Brazil)
Coordinates: 1.944818°S 54.732019°W / -1.944818; -54.732019
Country Brazil
RegionNorthern
StatePará
MesoregionBaixo Amazonas
Population
 (2020 [1])
 • Total57,092
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

The city is served by Alenquer Airport.[6]

Conservation

The municipality contains roughly half of the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.[7] The north of the municipality contains part (13.31%) of the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[8] It contains 2% of the 3,172,978 hectares (7,840,600 acres) Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.[9]

Notable people

See also

References
  1. IBGE 2020
  2. "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  3. "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  4. "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  5. "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  6. "Aeródromos". ANAC (in Portuguese). 29 June 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  7. FLONA de Mulata (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-01
  8. Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), archived from the original on 2020-09-26, retrieved 2016-05-12
  9. FES do Trombetas (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-07
  10. "Delival da Fonseca". Olympedia.org. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
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