Alenquer, Pará

Alenquer
Municipality
Alenquer

Location in Brazil

Coordinates: BR 1°56′41″S 54°43′55″W / 1.944818°S 54.732019°W / -1.944818; -54.732019Coordinates: BR 1°56′41″S 54°43′55″W / 1.944818°S 54.732019°W / -1.944818; -54.732019
Country  Brazil
Region Northern
State Pará
Mesoregion Baixo Amazonas
Time zone UTC -3

Alenquer is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.[1][2][3][4] The town is located on the northern bank of the Amazon River, roughly across from the city of Santarém.

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.[5] 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.[6] It contains 2% of the 3,172,978 hectares (7,840,600 acres) Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ FLONA de Mulata (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-01
  6. ↑ Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), retrieved 2016-05-12
  7. ↑ FES do Trombetas (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-07



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