Bacabal is a city in

Maranhão Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of . Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins and ...

, Brazil. It is located approximately 250 km south of the state capital São Luís. The city proper has a population of 104,633 (

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 ...

2018 estimate). It is the seat of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bacabal The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bacabal ( la, Dioecesis Bacabalensis) is a diocese located in the city of Bacabal in the Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão in Brazil. History * 22 June 1968: Established as Diocese of Bacabal from ...

. The municipality contains a small part of the

Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area The Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental da Baixada Maranhense) is an environmental protection area in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. It includes large areas of wetlands, and was designated a Ramsa ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.

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Municipalities in Maranhão {{Maranhão-geo-stub