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Chaves
Pará, Brazil · South America
About Chaves
Chaves sits on the route: 15 minutes from Tucumã.
Chaves is in Pará, Brazil, with about 21,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tucumã, about 8 km away.
Chaves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 23,948 people. The area of the municipality is 13,084.879 km2. The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of Arari.
Chaves is located on the island Marajó in the mouth of the AmazonRead more
River. A number of islands are part of the municipality, the largest of which are Caviana and Mexiana. The Tartarugas River forms the border with the municipality of Soure.
The municipality is contained in 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.
In the 17th and 18th Century, the area was inhabited by the Aruã, mainly around the Ganhoão River. Most of them migrated to Amapá and French Guiana after the Treaty of the Mapuá. In 1793, the Portuguese transferred the ones who had stayed to the lower Tocantins River. On the coast of Chaves, ceramic fragments related to them could still be found, but the advance of the Vieira Grande Bay washed them away.
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Chaves is in Pará, Brazil, about 8 km from Tucumã.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 20,757
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Pará
- Timezone
- America/Belem
- Coordinates
- -0.1600, -49.9883
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