The Carajás Mountains or Serra dos Carajás are a mountain range to the west of the municipality of
Marabá in the
Pará state
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 an ...
of
Brazil
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. Monte Redenção, Marabá's highest point, is located there.
The mountains are contained in the
Carajás National Forest
The Carajás National Forest () is a national forest in the state of Pará, Brazil. It covers the Serra dos Carajás (Carajás Mountains), an area with large deposits of iron ore, and attempts to combine the roles of supporting mineral extraction ...
, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.
See also
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Carajás Mine Carajás may refer to:
* Carajás Mountains
* Carajás Mine
* Carajás Airport
* Canaã dos Carajás
* Eldorado dos Carajás
* Carajás (proposed Brazilian state)
* ''Carajas'' (spider)
* Karajá or Carajás, an indigenous tribe of Brazil
* ...
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References
Further reading
* Newton Pereira de Rezende, ''Carajás: memórias da descoberta'', Editora Gráfica Stamppa, 2009, 316 pg. Book in Portuguese telling the history of Carajás' iron mines' discovery.
Mountain ranges of Brazil
Landforms of Pará
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