Alenquer, Pará

Alenquer is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.^[2][3][4][5] The town is located on the northern bank of the Amazon River, roughly across from the city of Santarém.

Alenquer
Municipality
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Coordinates: 1.944818°S 54.732019°W / -1.944818; -54.732019
Country	Brazil
Region	Northern
State	Pará
Mesoregion	Baixo Amazonas
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	57,092
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

The city is served by Alenquer Airport.^[6]

Conservation

The municipality contains roughly half of the 216,601 hectares (535,230 acres) Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.^[7] The north of the municipality contains part (13.31%) of the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.^[8] It contains 2% of the 3,172,978 hectares (7,840,600 acres) Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.^[9]

Notable people

• Delival Nobre (b. 1948), sports shooter^[10]

See also

• List of municipalities in Pará