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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 in

Read 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

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Brazil

Police
190
Ambulance
192
Fire
193
Driving side
right
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.

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