Country Brazil State Maranhão Time zone UTC-3 (UTC-3) Area 2,308 km² | Region Northeast Founded September 30, 1935 HDI (2000) 0.600 – medium Population 40,356 (2012) | |
Santa Helena is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.
Map of Santa Helena - Maranh%C3%A3o, Brazil
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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Santa Helena, Maranhão Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA