Tanguá
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Tanguá | |
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| Município de Tanguá | |
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| Nickname: 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°W | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Region | Southeast |
| State |  Rio de Janeiro |
| Government | |
| • Prefeito | Anderson Pereira de Oliveira (Coroné Anderson) |
| Area | |
• Total | 145,503 km2 (56,179 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 34,610 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
| Website | [1] |
Tanguá (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐ̃ˈgwa]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It covers an area of 145,5 km².[2]
Its population is relatively stable, with 29,481 in 2005[3] and 30,732 in 2010,[2] most of them urban.[2] This equates to a population density of 211 inhabitants per km².[2]
The municipality contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic of conservation units, created in 2006.[4] It contains the 878 hectares (2,170 acres) Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park, created in 2007 to protect an area of Atlantic Forest.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ a b c d 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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