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Breves, Pará
Municipality in North, Brazil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Breves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará, on the island of Marajó. Its population as of 2020[update] is estimated to be 103,497 people. The area of the municipality is 9,550.454 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of Furos de Breves.
The municipality is contained in the 59,985 square kilometres (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.[2] It contains the 93,746 hectares (231,650 acres) Mapuá Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2005.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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The climate is tropical rainforest (Köppen: Af), although August to October is nearly dry enough to be a tropical monsoon climate (Am). Temperatures are hot with extremely humidity all year round, and rainfall ranges from moderate to very heavy.[6]
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