Santa Inês 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

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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 North-East 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 ...

. .Geography: the climate of city is tropical with dry season. 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..Was emancipated from Pindaré Mirim in 1967. The city has one of the most important railway stations on the

Carajás Railway The Carajás Railway (; EFC or EF-315) is a railway line linking the cities of Parauapebas, Pará and São Luís, Maranhão, in Brazil. The line is one of the few in Brazil to carry passengers as well as cargo. It is one of the largest passenge ...

line.

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Municipalities in Maranhão {{Maranhão-geo-stub

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