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Óbidos, Pará
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Óbidos | ||
| settlement_type | Municipio | ||
| official_name | The Municipality of Óbidos | ||
| image_skyline | File:Obidos (Para Brésil), la place centrale de la vielle ville.jpg | ||
| image_seal | Brasão de Óbidos (Pará).jpg | ||
| image_flag | Band obidos br.jpg | ||
| image_map | Para Municip Obidos.svg | ||
| map_caption | Location in the State of Pará | ||
| subdivision_type | Country | ||
| subdivision_type1 | Region | ||
| subdivision_type2 | State | ||
| subdivision_name | Brazil | ||
| subdivision_name1 | North | ||
| subdivision_name2 | [[Image:Bandeira do Pará.svg | border | 22px]] Pará |
| established_title | Founded | ||
| established_date | September 23, 1867 | ||
| leader_title | Mayor | ||
| leader_name | Jaime Barbosa da Silva(PTB) | ||
| leader_title1 | |||
| area_total_km2 | 28,021.287 | ||
| population_as_of | 2020 | ||
| population_total | 52,306 | ||
| population_density_km2 | 1.76 | ||
| timezone | BRT | ||
| utc_offset | −3 |
Óbidos is a municipality in Pará, Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. The town was founded in 1697, and is located between Santarém and Oriximiná. It is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after Óbidos, Portugal.
Conservation
The north of the municipality contains part (7.36%) of the 4245819 ha Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet. It contains 10% of the 3172978 ha Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.
Transportation
Óbidos is served by Óbidos Airport.
''Sobral Santos II'' disaster
Main article: Sobral Santos II
Óbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking of in September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém and Manaus and was claimed to be overcrowded when it sank in Óbidos harbour. It is assumed over 300 people died in the disaster, with hundreds of bodies and body parts never identified.
Villages
- Missão Tiriyó
Climate
The climate is tropical monsoon (Köppen: Am), with great differences in precipitation according to the seasons.
| archive-date = 22 September 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190922133747/http://www.inmet.gov.br/portal/index.php?r=clima%2Fnormaisclimatologicas | url-status = dead
Notable people
- José Veríssimo — Writer
References
References
- [https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/pa/obidos/panorama IBGE 2020]
- "Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará". Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará).
- "FES do Trombetas". ISA: Instituto Socioambiental.
- (20 September 1981). "300 Die as Amazon Boat Sinks". New York Times.
- "Clima Óbidos: Temperatura, Tempo e Dados climatológicos Óbidos - Climate-Data.org".
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