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Breves
Pará, Brazil · South America
About Breves
Breves sits on the route: 35 minutes from Melgaço.
Breves is in Pará, Brazil, with about 110,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Melgaço, about 29 km away.
Breves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará, on the island of Marajó. Its population as of 2025 is estimated to be 116,058 people. The area of the municipality is 9,550.454 km2. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Marajó and to the microregion of Furos de Breves.
The municipality is contained inRead more
the 59,985-square-kilometre (23,160 sq mi) Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region.
It contains the 93,746-hectare (231,650-acre) Mapuá Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2005.
The city is served by Breves Airport.
In August 1659, the Treaty of the Mapuá was signed at the Mapuá River by Portuguese Jesuits led by António Vieira with various indigenous peoples who inhabited the Marajó Archipelago. The ceremony took place near a locality called Vila Amélia (1°7′S 50°18′W). In the present day, there is still an indigenous cemetery at the spot where the treaty was signed.
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Breves is in Pará, Brazil, about 29 km from Melgaço.
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- Population
- 106,968
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Pará
- Timezone
- America/Belem
- Coordinates
- -1.6822, -50.4803
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