Ponta de Pedras
Municipality in North, Brazil
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Ponta de Pedras is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 31,549 people. The area of the municipality is 3,365.126 km2. The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of Arari. The town of Ponta de Pedras is located on the Marajó-Açu River.
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.[2]
Notable people
- Dalcídio Jurandir (1909), novelist, winner of the Machado de Assis Prize