Tanguá () 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 ...

located in the

Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

. It covers an area of 145,5 km². Its population is relatively stable, with 29.481 in 2005 and 30.732 in 2010, most of them urban. This equates to a population density of 211 inhabitants per km². The municipality contains part of the

Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic The Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico da Mata Atlântica Central Fluminense is a protected area mosaic in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The mosaic is inland, to the east of the city of Rio de Janeiro. History A p ...

of conservation units, created in 2006. It contains the

Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park The Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park is a Municipal nature park (Brazil), municipal nature park in the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It protects an area of Atlantic Forest. Location The Serra do Barbosão Munic ...

, created in 2007 to protect an area of

Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and th ...

References

Municipalities in Rio de Janeiro (state) {{RiodeJaneiro-geo-stub