Monte Alegre, Pará

Monte Alegre, Pará
Municipality
Monte Alegre, Pará

Location in Brazil

Coordinates: BR 2°00′08″S 54°04′18″W / 2.002267°S 54.071742°W / -2.002267; -54.071742
Country  Brazil
Region Northern
State Pará
Mesoregion Baixo Amazonas
Time zone UTC -3

Monte Alegre, Pará is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.[1][2][3][4] It is located along the Amazon River in northern Brazil.

Near this area along the Amazon River is the Caverna del Pedra Pintada, an ancient archeological site with numerous rock paintings and pictographs. Excavations at the cave have found evidence of ancient peoples.

The north of the municipality contains a small part (3.44%) of the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[5] It also includes a small part (5.51%) of the 11,518 square kilometres (4,447 sq mi) Maicuru Biological Reserve.[6] The municipality contains roughly half of the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  5. ↑ Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará (in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará), retrieved 2016-05-12
  6. ↑ Maicuru Reserva Biológica (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-05-14
  7. ↑ FLONA de Mulata (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-01
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