Ananindeua () is a city in

Pará Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana ...

, northern

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 ...

. It is a part of the Metropolitan Region of

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...

, and is the second most populated city in the State of Pará, and the third largest in the Brazilian Amazon region. It has a population of 535,547 according to the last estimation of 2020, done by the Brazilian Statistic and Geography Institute (

IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information ...

). The municipality contains 1% of the

Utinga State Park The Utinga State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Utinga) is a state park within the metropolitan area of Belém, Pará, Brazil. It is surrounded by the Metropolitan Belém Environmental Protection Area, which protects a large part of the water suppl ...

, created in 1993 to protect the metropolitan area's water supply.

Education

Amazon Valley Academy and College of Amazon are located in this city.

Sport

Clube Municipal Ananindeua represents the city.

References

Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub