Bom Jardim is a
municipality
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in the
state
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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 ...
in the
Northeast region of
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 ...
. The population is 41,822. The former mayor of Bom Jardim, Lidiane Leite, was arrested for the embezzlement of US$4 million from the municipality.
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.
The municipality also contains part of the
Gurupi Biological Reserve
Gurupi Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do Gurupi) is a biological reserve in the State of Maranhão, in Brazil.
Location
The Gurupi Biological Reserve covers parts of the municipalities of Centro Novo do Maranhão and Bom Jardim i ...
, a full protected conservation unit created in 1988. Average annual rainfall is .
Temperatures range from with an average of .
References
Municipalities in Maranhão
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