Óbidos is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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) ...

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located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the

Amazon River The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of t ...

. The town was founded in 1697, and is located between Santarém and

Oriximiná Oriximiná is the westernmost and second-largest (by territorial area) municipality in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is also the fourth-largest in the country. Location The city lies on the Trombetas river, northwest of Óbidos. The city i ...

. It is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after

Óbidos, Portugal Óbidos (; cel-x-proto, Eburobrittium) is a town ( pt, List of Towns of Portugal, vila) and a municipality in the Oeste Subregion, Oeste region, historical province of Estremadura Province (1936-1976), Estremadura, and the Leiria District, Leiria ...

Conservation

The north of the municipality contains part (7.36%) of the

Grão-Pará Ecological Station The Grão-Pará Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará is a strictly protected ecological station in the state of Pará, Brazil. It managed by the state of Pará. With of well-preserved Amazon rainforest it is the largest full ...

, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet. It contains 10% of the

Trombetas State Forest The Trombetas State Forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual do Trombetas) is a state forest in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Trombetas State Forest is divided between the municipalities of Oriximiná (87.91%), Óbidos (10.27%) and Alenquer ( ...

, created in 2006.

Transportation

Óbidos is served by

Óbidos Airport Óbidos Airport , is the airport serving Óbidos, Brazil. Airlines and destinations Access The airport is located from downtown Óbidos. See also *List of airports in Brazil This is a list of airports in Brazil, sorted by location. T ...

''Sobral Santos II'' disaster

Óbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking of in September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém and

Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...

and was claimed to be overcrowded when it sank in Óbidos harbour. It is assumed over 300 people died in the disaster, with hundreds of bodies and body parts never identified.

Villages

Missão Tiriyó Missão Tiriyó, sometimes also known by its native name Tawainen is an indigenous Tiriyó village situated near the headwaters of the Western Paru River in Brazil, near the border with Suriname. The Surinamese village of Sipaliwini Savanna Th ...

Climate

The climate is tropical monsoon (

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: ''Am''), with great differences in precipitation according to the seasons.

Conservation

Transportation

''Sobral Santos II'' disaster

Villages

Climate

References

Further reading