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Monte Alegre, Pará

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Country
  
Brazil

State
  
Pará

Time zone
  
UTC -3

Local time
  
Friday 8:14 PM

Region
  
Northern

Mesoregion
  
Baixo Amazonas

Area
  
18,153 km²

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Weather
  
26°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 91% Humidity

Monte Alegre, Pará is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. It is located along the Amazon River in northern Brazil.

Map of Monte Alegre - State of Par%C3%A1, 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. It also includes a small part (5.51%) of the 11,518 square kilometres (4,447 sq mi) Maicuru Biological Reserve. The municipality contains roughly half of the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001. It contains all of the fully protected 3,678 hectares (9,090 acres) Monte Alegre State Park, created in 2001.

References

Monte Alegre, Pará Wikipedia


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