State Pará Time zone UTC -3 Area 3,146 km² | Region Northern Mesoregion Sudeste Paraense Website Official website | |
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Canaã dos Carajás is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.
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The world's largest iron ore mining project, S11D, is being built nearby. The municipality contains 30% of the Carajás National Forest, a 411,949 hectares (1,017,950 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.
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