Mazagao

Mazagao is a municipality positioned within the south of the nation of Amapa in Brazil. Its populace is 17,030 and its vicinity is 13,131 rectangular kilometres. The metropolis became named after the Portuguese colony Mazagao in North Africa, now El Jadida, which the Portuguese deserted in 1769 after a few 250 years of profession. Many of its population were evacuated to Brazil, where they founded a brand new agreement Nova Mazagao, now called Mazagao Velho. You can come here and explore this place.

One of the primary theories at the foundation of the call of Mazagaon one of the original Seven Islands of Bombay and nonetheless a ancient community of Mumbay, India derives this call, too, from the Moroccan city, considering both have been below Portuguese rule within the same time. The municipality incorporates forty four in step with cent of the 501,771 hectares Rio Cajari Extractive Reserve, created in 1990. It includes 19 according to cent of the 806,184 hectares Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 1997. It includes a part of the Jari Ecological Station. It also carries 8.56 in keeping with cent of the 2,369,400 hectares Amapa State Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit mounted in 2006.