Tanguá
Tanguá | |||
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Municipality | |||
Município de Tanguá | |||
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Nickname(s): Capital Pioneira das Telecomunicações | |||
Location of Tanguá in the state of Rio de Janeiro | |||
Tanguá Location of Tanguá in Brazil | |||
Coordinates: 22°43′48″S 42°42′50″W / 22.73000°S 42.71389°WCoordinates: 22°43′48″S 42°42′50″W / 22.73000°S 42.71389°W | |||
Country |
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Region | Southeast | ||
State |
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Government | |||
• Prefeito | Valber Luiz Marcelo de Carvalho (PTB) | ||
Area | |||
• Total | 145.503 km2 (56.179 sq mi) | ||
Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) | ||
Population (2010) | |||
• Total | 30,732 | ||
Time zone | UTC-3 (UTC-3) | ||
Website |
Tanguá (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐ̃ˈgwa]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It covers an area of 145,5 km².[1]
Its population is relatively stable, with 29.481 in 2005[2] and 30.732 in 2010,[1] most of them urban.[1] This equates to a population density of 211 inhabitants per km².[1]
The municipality contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic of conservation units, created in 2006.[3] It contains the 878 hectares (2,170 acres) Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park, created in 2007 to protect an area of Atlantic Forest.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011
- ↑ Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007
- ↑ Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, retrieved 2016-10-02
- ↑ Pereira, Carlos Roberto (23 October 2007), Lei nº. 0633, de 23 de Outubro de 2007 (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-05
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