Canaã dos Carajás

Canaã dos Carajás
Municipality
Location of Canaã dos Carajás in the State of Pará
Canaã dos Carajás Location in Brazil
Coordinates: BR 6°29′49″S 49°52′40″W / 6.49694°S 49.87778°WCoordinates: BR 6°29′49″S 49°52′40″W / 6.49694°S 49.87778°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Northern
State	Pará
Mesoregion	Sudeste Paraense
Population
• Total	29,101
Time zone	UTC -3
Website	Official website

Canaã dos Carajás is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.^[1][2][3][4]

The world's largest iron ore mining project, S11D, is being built nearby.^[5] The municipality contains 30% of the Carajás National Forest, a 411,949 hectares (1,017,950 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.^[6]

See also

• List of municipalities in Pará

References

1. "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
2. "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
3. "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
4. "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
5. "Vale board approves S11D iron-ore project". Mining Journal. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
6. FLONA de Carajás (in Potuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-05-30