Almas is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
located in the
Brazilian state
The federative units of Brazil () 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 together form the Federative Repu ...
of
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 2014 ...
. Its population was 6,979 (2020) and its area is 4,013 km².
The municipality contains part of the
Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station
Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the states of Bahia and Tocantins, Brazil. It is one of the largest such units in the country, and protects a sparsely populated area of the cerrado biome. The main threat ...
, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2001 to preserve an area of
cerrado
The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...
.
See also
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List of municipalities in Tocantins
This is a list of the municipalities in the States of Brazil, state of Tocantins (state), Tocantins (TO), located in the North Region, Brazil, North Region of Brazil. Tocantins is divided into 139 Municipalities of Brazil, municipalities in an are ...
References
Municipalities in Tocantins
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