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Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses [a]) is a national park in Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil, just east of the Baía de São José. Protected on June 2, 1981, the 155,000 ha (380,000-acre) park includes 70 km (43 mi) of coastline, and an interior composed of rolling sand dunes.
Maranhão is the fourth-largest economy in the Northeast region and the 17th-largest in Brazil. [citation needed] Maranhão exports: aluminium 50%, iron 23.7%, soybean 13.1% (2002). Share of the Brazilian economy: 0.9% (2004). [16] Maranhão is also known as the land of the palm trees, as the various species of this tree provide its major ...
National parks are the oldest type of protected area in Brazil. National parks are very important for our rainforest and other areas. Their goal is to preserve ecosystems of great ecological importance and scenic beauty, and to support scientific research, education, environmental interpretation, recreation and eco-tourism through contact with nature.
Barreirinhas is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. [2] [3] [4] [5]The municipality contains part of the 1,535,310 hectares (3,793,800 acres) Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Environmental Protection Area, created in 1992.
Barreirinhas Lençóis Maranhenses Regional Airport (IATA: BRB, ICAO: SSRS) is the airport serving Barreirinhas, Brazil. It is operated by Esaero History The airport ...
Chinese officials and ordinary people are hopeful but on edge as Donald Trump returns to the White House, eager to avoid a repeat of the bruising trade war that drove a wedge between the economic ...
In 1910, pregnant Áurea (Torres) along with her mother, Maria (Montenegro) arrive at a remote, desert-like part of the Brazilian state of Maranhão—called the Lençóis Maranhenses—where her fanatical husband Vasco de Sá (Ruy Guerra) has relocated the family from the state's capital, São Luís, to start a farm.
What access Elon Musk has to closely-guarded government data – including sensitive information it has collected about and from the American public – is a key battlefront in the ongoing and ...