Country Brazil State Maranhão Time zone UTC -3 Population 22,016 (2010) | Region Nordeste Mesoregion Centro Maranhense Area 817.3 km² | |
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Pio XII is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. The city gained international notoriety when a referee at an amateur football match was beheaded and quartered after he fatally stabbed a player to death.
Map of Pio Xii, Maranh%C3%A3o, Brazil
It is named after Pope Pius XII.
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.
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Pio XII, Maranhão Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA