Alenquer, Pará

Alenquer is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. The town is located on the northern bank of the Amazon River, roughly across from the city of Santarém.

The city is served by Alenquer Airport.

Conservation
The municipality contains roughly half of the 216601 ha Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001. The north of the municipality contains part (13.31%) of the 4245819 ha Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet. It contains 2% of the 3172978 ha Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.

Notable people

 * Delival Nobre (b. 1948), sports shooter