Maricá () is a

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located in the

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. It is located in the Greater Niterói region (or Metropolitan East), bordering

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, São Gonçalo, Rio Bonito,

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and Tanguá. The municipal territory extends over 361.572 km² and is divided into four

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: Maricá (headquarters), Ponta Negra, Inoã and Itaipuaçu. The municipality can be accessed via RJ-106 (Amaral Peixoto Highway), which connects the municipality to the

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, São Gonçalo and

, or via RJ-114, which connects the municipality of

and the RJ-104 and

BR-101 The BR-101 (also called ''Translitorânea'' (transcoastal), officially named ''Rodovia Governador Mário Covas''.Highway, highways. The municipality of Maricá is also known for its rural properties – small farms and large ranches – many of which are rich in historical content. The

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also passed through the city – even today, there are remnants of that time, such as stations, tracks, a tunnel and a bridge in the Inoã neighborhood, with the inscription Estrada de Ferro Maricá. The city has an airport, which does not operate regular flights, only offshore operations, known as Maricá Airport, located in the urban center.

Geography

Maricá is a city of the

Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area Greater Rio de Janeiro, officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (''Grande Rio'', officially ''Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro'', in Portuguese) is a large metropolitan area located in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, the sec ...

, located on the coast of the

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and 25 miles away from the city of Rio de Janeiro. The municipality contains part of the

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, created in 1991.

Population

Area

Its area is 362,571 km².

Territorial organization

Maricá is administratively divided into 50 ''bairros'' (neighborhoods) and 4 ''distritos'' (districts).

Transportation

Maricá has an airport, the Maricá Airport. Maricá is served by the

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and RJ-104.

Economy

Maricá has received many royalties from the Brazilian energy company

Petrobras Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and Trade name, trading as the portmanteau Petrobras (), is a Brazilian state-owned enterprise, majority state-owned multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. ...

, because of the

Campos Basin The Campos Basin is one of 12 coastal sedimentary basins of Brazil. It spans both onshore and offshore parts of the South Atlantic with the onshore part located near Rio de Janeiro. The basin originated in Neocomian stage of the Cretaceous peri ...

and

Santos Basin The Santos Basin () is an approximately large mostly offshore sedimentary basin. It is located in the south Atlantic Ocean, some southeast of Santos, São Paulo, Santos, Brazil. The basin is one of the Brazilian basins to have resulted from th ...

oil field.

Climate

References

Conhecendo a Cidade de Maricá

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