Óbidos 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 ...

Pará 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 ...

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located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. The town was founded in 1697, and is located between Santarém and Oriximiná. It is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after

Óbidos, Portugal Óbidos (; cel-x-proto, Eburobrittium) is a town ( pt, vila) and a municipality in the Oeste region, historical province of Estremadura, and the Leiria district. The town proper has approximately 3100 inhabitants. The municipality population in ...

Conservation

The north of the municipality contains part (7.36%) of the

Grão-Pará Ecological Station The Grão-Pará Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará is a strictly protected ecological station in the state of Pará, Brazil. It managed by the state of Pará. With of well-preserved Amazon rainforest it is the largest fully ...

, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet. It contains 10% of the Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.

Transportation

Óbidos is served by

Óbidos Airport Óbidos Airport , is the airport serving Óbidos, Brazil. Airlines and destinations Access The airport is located from downtown Óbidos. See also *List of airports in Brazil This is a list of airports in Brazil, sorted by location. T ...

''Sobral Santos II'' disaster

Óbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking of in September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém and Manaus and was claimed to be overcrowded when it sank in Óbidos harbour. It is assumed over 300 people died in the disaster, with hundreds of bodies and body parts never identified.

Villages

* Missão Tiriyó

Climate

The climate is tropical monsoon (

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: ''Am''), with great differences in precipitation according to the seasons.

Conservation

Transportation

''Sobral Santos II'' disaster

Villages

Climate

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