Alenquer, Pará
Municipality in Northern, Brazil
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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.
The city is served by Alenquer Airport.[6]
Conservation
The municipality contains roughly half of the 216,601-hectare (535,230-acre) 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-hectare (10,491,650-acre) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[8] It contains 2% of the 3,172,978-hectare (7,840,600-acre) Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.[9]
Notable people
- Delival Nobre (b. 1948), sports shooter[10]
