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Chaves, Pará

Chaves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 23,948 people. The area of the municipality is 13,084.879 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of Arari.

Chaves is located near the point where the Amazon River enters the Atlantic Ocean. A number of islands are part of the municipality, the largest of which are Caviana and Mexiana.

The municipality is contained in the 59,985 square kilometres (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]

In the 17th and 18th Century, the area was inhabited by the Aruã. Most of them migrated to Amapá and French Guiana after the Treaty of the Mapuá. In 1793, the Portuguese transferred the ones who had stayed to the lower Tocantins River.[3] On the coast of Chaves, ceramic fragments related to them could still be found, but the advance of the Vieira Grande Bay washed them away.[4]

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References

  1. ^ IBGE 2020
  2. ^ APA Arquipélago do Marajó (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-27{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  3. ^ Steward, J.H. (1948). Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes (PDF). Smithsonian Institution. p. 194–196.
  4. ^ Carvalho. "Tem quilombo na Amazônia" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-04-09.