Bragança, Pará

Municipality in Northern, Brazil
Flag of Bragança
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Official seal of Bragança
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Nickname(s): 
Tera da Marujada
(Land of the Fandango)
Location of Bragança in the State of Pará
Location of Bragança in the State of Pará
01°03′46″S 46°46′22″W / 1.06278°S 46.77278°W / -1.06278; -46.77278Country BrazilRegionNorthernStateParáMesoregionNordeste ParaenseDemonymbragantino(a)Founded1613Government
 • MayorJoao Nelson Pereira Magalhaes (PT)Area • Total810.098 sq mi (2,098.144 km2)Elevation
62 ft (19 m)Population
 (2020 [2])
 • Total128,914 • Density160/sq mi (61/km2)Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

Bragança is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.[3][4][5][6]

The municipality contains part of the 27,864 hectares (68,850 acres) of the Tracuateua Marine Extractive Reserve, an extractive reserve unit created in 2005.[7] It contains the 42,069 hectares (103,950 acres) Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2005.[8]

History

The city was founded as New Bragança (after Bragança, Portugal).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics" (in Portuguese). 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2019. 2018 Area Total
  2. ^ IBGE 2020
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  6. ^ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  7. ^ RESEX Marinha de Tracuateua (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-04
  8. ^ RESEX Marinha de Caeté-Taperaçu (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-12
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