Formosa do Rio Preto
Formosa do Rio Preto | |
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Municipality | |
| The Municipality of Formosa do Rio Preto | |
UTC−3 (BRT) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC11° 02' 52" S 45° 11' 34" O |
| HDI (2000) | 0.646 – medium[3] |
Formosa do Rio Preto is the westernmost and largest (by area) city in the
state of Bahia. It is also the largest in all Northeastern Brazil
.
The municipality contains part of the 707,079 hectares (1,747,230 acres) Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2001 to preserve an area of cerrado.[4] It also contains part of the 724,324 hectares (1,789,840 acres) Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in 2002.[5]
References
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ IBGE 2008 statistics
- UNDP
- ^ Unidade de Conservação: Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-28
- ^ Unidade de Conservação: Parque Nacional das Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-01
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