Country Brazil State Maranhão Time zone UTC -3 | Region Nordeste Mesoregion Norte Maranhense | |
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São João Batista, Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.
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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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São João Batista, Maranhão Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA