Canaã dos Carajás is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.[2][3][4][5]
Canaã dos Carajás | |
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Municipality | |
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 Location of Canaã dos Carajás in the State of Pará | |
  Canaã dos Carajás Location in Brazil | |
| Coordinates: 6°29′49″S 49°52′40″W / 6.49694°S 49.87778°W | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Region | Northern |
| State | Pará |
| Mesoregion | Sudeste Paraense |
| Government Mayor | |
| • Mayor | Josemira Raimunda Diniz Gadelha |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
| • Total | 38,103 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
| Area code | 94 |
| Website | Official website |
The world's largest iron ore mining project, S11D, is being built nearby.[6] The municipality contains 30% of the Carajás National Forest, a 411,949 hectares (1,017,950 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.[7]
See also
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edit- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Vale board approves S11D iron-ore project". Mining Journal. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ^ FLONA de Carajás (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-05-30
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