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Macapa is a city in Brazil. It is the capital of Amapa country inside the united states of america's North Region. It is located at the northern channel of the Amazon River close to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean. The metropolis is on a small plateau on the Amazon within the southeast of the country of Amapa. The simplest get right of entry to by avenue from outdoor the province is from French Guiana, even though there are ordinary ferries to Belem, Brazil.

Macapa is connected with the aid of street with some other towns in Amapa .The equator runs thru the middle of the city, leading citizens to refer to Macapa as "The capital of the middle of the world." It covers 6,407.12 square kilometres and is located northwest of the large inland island of Marajo and south of the border with French Guiana. Macapa is a corruption of the Tupi word macapaba, or "vicinity of many bacabas", the fruit of the local palm tree.

The Spaniard Francisco de Orellana claimed the area in 1544 and referred to as it Nueva Andalucia. The current city began as the base of a Portuguese navy detachment, stationed there in 1738. On February 4, 1758 Sebastião Veiga Cabral, the illegitimate child of the military governor of Tras-os-Montes, Sebastiao Veiga Cabral, based the town of Sao Jose de Macapa, below the authority of the governor of Para, Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado.

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