Maracanã, Pará 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 ...

in the state of

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) ...

in the Northern region of

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. The municipality contains the lower reaches of the Maracanã River, which is joined by the Caripi River before widening into Maracanã Bay and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean beside

Maiandeua Island The Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental de Algodoal-Maiandeua) is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects two coastal islands with beaches, dunes, mangroves and w ...

. The banks of the rivers are protected by the

Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve The Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Maracanã) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects an area of mangroves, and allows the local population to make sustainable use ...

, created in 2002. The municipality contains the

Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area The Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental de Algodoal-Maiandeua) is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects two coastal islands with beaches, dunes, mangroves and w ...

, created in 1990.

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Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub

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