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Altamira
Pará, Brazil · South America
About Altamira
Altamira sits on the route: 45 minutes from Brasil Novo.
Altamira is in Pará, Brazil, with about 130,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Brasil Novo, about 39 km away.
Altamira is a municipality in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. It has an area of 159,533.73 square kilometres or 61,596.32 square miles, making it the largest municipality by area both in Pará state and Brazil, and until 2009 it was the world's largest municipal subdivision. It occupies 12.8% of the state'sRead more
territory, 1.8% of Brazil's territory and 0.8% of South America. It also covers a more extensive area than 104 countries, and its size is comparable to that of the US state of Georgia.
Altamira Municipality encompasses the Altamira city and district, the seat of local government, whose majority population lives in urban area, and nine other mostly rural districts (most of those covered by the Amazon rainforest), whose urban populations are minorities, and live in inhabited areas spaced by tens or hundreds of kilometers. According to the 2010 Brazilian National Census the municipality had 99,075 inhabitants which grew to 115,969 at the 2020 Census, making a density of only 0.73 inhabitants per square kilometer at the same year. It is home to hundreds of indigenous communities and environmental protection areas. The Belo Monte Dam, the world's fourth largest hydroelectric dam is also located in the municipality.
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Altamira is in Pará, Brazil, about 39 km from Brasil Novo.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 126,279
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Pará
- Timezone
- America/Santarem
- Coordinates
- -3.2033, -52.2064
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