Pinheiro, Maranhão

Municipality in Northeast, Brazil
Flag of Pinheiro
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Official seal of Pinheiro
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Nickname: 
"Princesa da Baixada" (Princess of the Baixada[1])
Location of Pinheiro in the State of Maranhão
Location of Pinheiro in the State of Maranhão
Coordinates: 02°31′15″S 45°04′58″W / 2.52083°S 45.08278°W / -2.52083; -45.08278CountryBrazilRegionNortheastStateMaranhãoFoundedSeptember 3, 1856Government
 • MayorLuciano Genésio (Avante)Area
 • Total1,465.503 km2 (565.834 sq mi) [2]Population
 (2020 [3])
 • Total83,777 • Density57/km2 (150/sq mi)Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)HDI (2000)0.639 – medium[4]Websitewww.pinheiro.ma.gov.br

Pinheiro is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of 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.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Baixada" is a Brazilian word for flat areas near the sea
  2. ^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ IBGE 2020
  4. ^ [1] Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine UNDP
  5. ^ APA Baixada Maranhense (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-13
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