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Marapanim River
The Marapanim River ( pt, Rio Marapanim) is a river of the state of Pará, Brazil. Course The Marapanim River rises in the municipality of São Francisco do Pará. It flows in a generally north direction, and enters the Atlantic Ocean just past Marapanim, Pará, which lies on its left bank. The eastern side of the Marapanim Bay before Maiandeua Island is protected by the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2002. Further south the eastern side is protected by the Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve. The western side is protected by the Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2014. Environment At its mouth the river is mainly bordered by mud flats. The area around Rio Marapanim has a low population, with about 18 people per square kilometre. The area has a monsoon climate. The average temperature is . The hottest month is September, with and the coldest month is January, with . Average annual rainfall is . The wettest month is March, with and the dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Francisco Do Pará
São Francisco do Pará is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. See also *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. Pará is divided into 144 municipalities, which are grouped into 22 microregions, which are grouped into 6 mesoregions. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuinarana River
The Cuinarana River ( pt, Rio Cuinarana) is a river in the state of Pará, Brazil, a tributary of the Marapanim River. Course The river originates near the village of Magalhães Barata, and flows north to the point where it enters the Marapanim River. The mangroves of the east side of the Cuinarana River are protected by the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve The Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Maracanã) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects an area of mangroves, and allows the local population to make sustainable use .... On the west side the mangroves are protected by the Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve. The west bank of the Marapanim River, and the peninsula to the left of the mouth of the estuary formed by the Marapanim and Cuinarana rivers is protected by the Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve. Environment The mouth of the river is mainly mud flats. The area around Rio Cuinar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 state), Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, Brazil, North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at , second only to Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces Natural rubber, rubber (extracted from natural rubber tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marapanim
Marapanim is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the states of Brazil, state of Pará in the Northern Region, Brazil, Northern region of Brazil. The municipality is on the left (west) bank of the Marapanim River. It contains the Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2014. See also *List of municipalities in Pará References Municipalities in Pará Populated coastal places in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiandeua Island
The Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental de Algodoal-Maiandeua) is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects two coastal islands with beaches, dunes, mangroves and wetlands that are home to fishing people and are popular with tourists. Location The Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area is in the municipality of Maracanã, Pará. It is on the northeast coast of Pará in the Salgado microregion. The Atlantic Ocean is to the north and the Mocooca channel to the south. The Maracanã River estuary is to the east and the Marapanim River estuary to the west. The APA is bounded to the south by the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve. The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve is opposite the APA to the west. The APA has an area of about and consists of two islands separated by an intermittent tidal channel called the ''Furo Velho''. Algodoal Island has and contains Algodoal village, Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve
The Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Maracanã) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects an area of mangroves, and allows the local population to make sustainable use of the natural resources. Location The Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Maracanã in the state of Pará. It has an area of . The municipality of Maracanã was founded in 1653 when father António Vieira arrived in Pará on a mission to the village of Maracanã Indians. Today there are 75 coastal communities in the reserve, mainly living by fishing. Other activities include agriculture, animal husbandry and support of tourism. The holidays are religious, and include the festivals of Saint Michael the Archangel, Our Lady of Nazareth and Saint Benedict. Handcrafts include construction of fishing vessels and fishing equipment. The reserve protects the mangroves of the lower reaches of the Maracanã and Caripi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve
The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha Cuinarana) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Magalhães Barata, Pará. It has an area of . The reserve protects the mangroves between the east bank of the Marapanim River and the west bank of the Cuinarana River. The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve lies to the west and the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve lies to the east. History The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 10 October 2014. The reserve is one of three created by president Dilma Rousseff thirteen days before the 2014 presidential elections. The other two are the Mocapajuba and Mestre Lucindo marine extractive reserves, both also in Pará. The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve was expanded by . The reserve is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve
The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha Mestre Lucindo) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve is located in the municipality of Marapanim, Pará. It has an area of . It protects the west bank of the Marapanim River, and the peninsula to the left of the mouth of the estuary formed by the Marapanim and Cuinarana rivers. The reserve lies on both sides of the coastal towns of Marapanim and Marudá. It adjoins the Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve to the west and the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve and the Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area to the east. History The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 10 October 2014 with an area of . The reserve is one of three created by president Dilma Rousseff thirteen days before the 2014 presidential elections. The other two are the Mocapajuba and Cuina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Pará
List of rivers in Pará (Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in Pará drain to the Atlantic Ocean, the majority of the state is in the Amazon Basin. By Drainage Basin * Amazon River ** Cajari River ** Anajás River *** Cururu River *** Moções River ** Jacaré River *** Aramá River **** Mapuá River *** Furo do Tajapuru (connects to Pará River) **** Da Laguna River (Pauxis River) *** De Breves River (connects to Pará River) ** Baquiá Preto River ** Jari River *** Carecuru River *** Ipitinga River ** Xingu River *** Jaraucu River *** Acarai River *** Tucurui River *** Bacajá River *** Bacajaí River *** Itata River *** Iriri River **** Novo River **** Carajarí River **** Curuá River ***** Baú River ***** Curuaés River **** Catete River **** Xinxim River **** Chiché River **** Iriri Novo Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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