Pinheiro, Maranhão
Appearance
Pinheiro | |
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Municipality | |
The Municipality of Pinheiro | |
An avenue in Pinheiro | |
Nickname: "Princesa da Baixada" (Princess of the Baixada[1]) | |
![]() Location of Pinheiro in the State of Maranhão | |
Coordinates: 02°31′15″S 45°04′58″W / 2.52083°S 45.08278°W | |
Country | Brazil |
Region | Northeast |
State | Maranhão |
Founded | September 3, 1856 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Luciano Genésio (Avante) |
Area | |
• Total | 1,465.503 km2 (565.834 sq mi) |
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Population (2020 [3]) | |
• Total | 83,777 |
• Density | 57/km2 (150/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
HDI (2000) | 0.639 – medium[4] |
Website | www.pinheiro.ma.gov.br |
Pinheiro is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.
The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6 hectares (4,386,208 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Baixada" is a Brazilian word for flat areas near the sea
- ^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ [1] Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine UNDP
- ^ APA Baixada Maranhense (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-13