Pinheiro, Maranhão

Pinheiro
Pinheiro
Municipality
	The Municipality of Pinheiro
	An avenue in Pinheiro
	Flag Seal
	Nickname: "Princesa da Baixada" (Princess of the Baixada)
	Location of Pinheiro in the State of Maranhão
	Coordinates: 02°31′15″S 45°04′58″W / 2.52083°S 45.08278°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Northeast
State	Maranhão
Founded	September 3, 1856
Government
• Mayor	Luciano Genésio (Avante)
Area
• Total	1,465.503 km2 (565.834 sq mi)
Population (2020 )
• Total	83,777
• Density	57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
HDI (2000)	0.639 – medium
Website	www.pinheiro.ma.gov.br

Pinheiro is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.

The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6 hectares (4,386,208 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.^[5]

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^ "Baixada" is a Brazilian word for flat areas near the sea
^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ IBGE 2020
^ [1] Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine UNDP
^ APA Baixada Maranhense (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-13

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[1] "Baixada" is a Brazilian word for flat areas near the sea

[2] IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] IBGE 2020

[4] [1] Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine UNDP

[5] APA Baixada Maranhense (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-13

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Authority control databases
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National	Israel United States

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