Curralinho is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of

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 ...

. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 34,994 people. The area of the municipality is 3.617,240 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion

Marajó Marajó () is a large coastal island in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is the main and largest of the islands in the Marajó Archipelago. Marajó Island is separated from the mainland by Marajó Bay, Pará River, smaller rivers (especially ...

and to the microregion of ''Furos de Breves''.

Geography

The municipality is on the island of

to the northwest of

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...

in the delta region where the

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...

and

Tocantins Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás. Tocantins covers and had an estimated population of 1,496,880 in 20 ...

rivers empty into the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

. It contains part of the

Terra Grande-Pracuúba Extractive Reserve The Terra Grande-Pracuúba Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Terra Grande-Pracuúba) is an extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Terra Grande-Pracuúba Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2006. It is contained within the

Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area The Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Arquipélago do Marajó) is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects the Marajó Archipelago, made up of marine fluvial is ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region.

References

Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub