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Melgaço
Pará, Brazil · South America
About Melgaço
Melgaço sits on the route: 20 minutes from Portel.
Melgaço is in Pará, Brazil, with about 28,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Portel, about 19 km away.
Melgaço is a municipality in the state of Pará in the North Region of Brazil. With an area of 6,772.764 square kilometers (2,614.979 sq mi), of which 1.7177 square kilometres (0.6632 sq mi) is urban, it is located 173 km from Belém, the state capital, and 1,503 km from Brasília, the federal capital. Its population inRead more
the 2022 demographic census was 27,881 inhabitants, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), ranking as the 77th most populous municipality in the state of Pará. Melgaço ranked lowest among all Brazilian municipalities in the Human Development Index (HDI-M) published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2010.
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Melgaço is in Pará, Brazil, about 19 km from Portel.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 27,881
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Pará
- Timezone
- America/Belem
- Coordinates
- -1.8044, -50.7122
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