Breves is a Brazilian

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 state of

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

, on the island of

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 M ...

. Its population is estimated to be 103,497 people. The area of the municipality is 9,550.454 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion

and to the microregion of ''Furos de Breves''. The municipality is contained in the

Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area The Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area () is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects the Marajó Archipelago, made up of marine fluvial islands in the area where the Amazon and Tocantins rivers ...

, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region. It contains the Mapuá Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2005. The city is served by Breves Airport. In August 1659, the Treaty of the Mapuá was signed at the

Mapuá River The Mapuá River () is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. It is a left tributary of the Aramá River. In August 1659, the Treaty of the Mapuá was signed here by Portuguese Jesuits led by António Vieira with various indigenous peop ...

by Portuguese

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led by

António Vieira António (or Antônio) Vieira (; 6 February 160818 July 1697) was a Portuguese Jesuit Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest, diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal. Biogr ...

with various indigenous peoples who inhabited the Marajó Archipelago. The ceremony took place near a locality called Vila Amélia (). In the present day, there is still an indigenous cemetery at the spot where the treaty was signed.

Climate

The climate is

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(

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: ''Af''), although August to October is nearly dry enough to be a

tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ' ...

(''Am''). Temperatures are hot with extremely humidity all year round, and rainfall ranges from moderate to very heavy.

References

Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub

Climate

See also

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