São Miguel do Guamá

Municipality in Pará, Brazil

Gentile: Guamaenserio Guamá

About

São Miguel do Guamá is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará. It is located at a latitude 01º37'36 "south and a longitude 47º29'00" west, being at an altitude of 10 meters. Its estimated population in 2020 was 59,632.^[1] It has an area of 1094,839 km². The city counts on the districts of Caju, Urucuri, Urucuriteua and the district-sede, that is identified by the own name of the municipality.

The municipality of São Miguel do Guamá belongs to the Guajarina Zone and covers an area of 1341 km², in the Northeast region, being cut by the Guamá River, from west to east, where, on its left bank, is the seat of the municipality. The headquarters distance 150 km from Belém, being included in the Guamá pole. Its limits are Santa Maria do Pará and Bonito to the north; Ourém to the east; São Domingos do Capim and Irituia to the south and Inhangapi and Castanhal to the west.

History

The occupation of the rich lands known today as the municipality of São Miguel do Guamá occurred around the seventeenth century through the navigations carried out by the Portuguese settlers along the Guamá River. At that time, the government of the Captaincy granted sesmarias to the friars of the Convent of Carmo, in which they founded the farm of Pernambuco. In 1758, Agostinho Domingos da Siqueira donated land for the formation of a chapel where, in the same year, Bishop Miguel de Bulhões created the parish of São Miguel, also known as São Miguel da Cachoeira.

With the creation of the parish and the presence of the vicar at the headquarters, the Mother Church was built and around this, several houses were erected and the place became a village, still a simple parish and so throughout the colonial period.

On the border of the province of Pará in terms and counties, held in 1833, the territory of the then parish became part of the municipality of Ourém. In 1872, it dismembered itself, acquiring the category of Village, already in 1873 the Provincial Assembly created the respective municipality, with the law nº 2,663 of October 31 of 1873, from there, São Miguel left the category of town happening to be municipality.

Economy

The economy of São Miguel do Guamá is based on bricks and tiles manufacturing, in which there are on average about 50 industries, producing about 30 million bricks and 8 million tiles per month, being sold to all regions of the country. The largest industries are São Cerâmica Barreira, Barbosa, Cemil and Kamiranga.

Education

The municipality has one public university, UEPA-universidade estadual do Pará, and other institutions.

References

^ IBGE 2020

Municipalities of Pará

Capital: Belém

Mesoregion
Lower Amazonas

Almeirim	Almeirim Porto de Moz
Óbidos	Faro Juruti Óbidos Oriximiná Terra Santa
Santarém	Alenquer Belterra Curuá Mojuí dos Campos Monte Alegre Placas Prainha Santarém

Mesoregion
Marajó

Arari	Cachoeira do Arari Chaves Muaná Ponta de Pedras Salvaterra Santa Cruz do Arari Soure
Furos de Breves	Afuá Anajás Breves Curralinho São Sebastião da Boa Vista
Portel	Bagre Gurupá Melgaço Portel

Mesoregion
Metropolitan Belém

Belém	Ananindeua Barcarena Belém Benevides Marituba Santa Bárbara do Pará
Castanhal	Bujaru Castanhal Inhangapi Santa Isabel do Pará Santo Antônio do Tauá

Mesoregion
Northeastern Pará

Bragantina	Augusto Corrêa Bonito Bragança Capanema Igarapé-Açu Nova Timboteua Peixe-Boi Primavera Quatipuru Santa Maria do Pará Santarém Novo São Francisco do Pará Tracuateua
Cametá	Abaetetuba Baião Cametá Igarapé-Miri Limoeiro do Ajuru Mocajuba Oeiras do Pará
Guamá	Aurora do Pará Cachoeira do Piriá Capitão Poço Garrafão do Norte Ipixuna do Pará Irituia Mãe do Rio Nova Esperança do Piriá Ourém Santa Luzia do Pará São Domingos do Capim São Miguel do Guamá Viseu
Salgado	Colares Curuçá Magalhães Barata Maracanã Marapanim Salinópolis São Caetano de Odivelas São João da Ponta São João de Pirabas Terra Alta Vigia
Tomé-Açu	Acará Concórdia do Pará Moju Tailândia Tomé-Açu

Mesoregion
Southeastern Pará

Conceição do Araguaia	Conceição do Araguaia Floresta do Araguaia Santa Maria das Barreiras Santana do Araguaia
Marabá	Brejo Grande do Araguaia Marabá Palestina do Pará São Domingos do Araguaia São João do Araguaia
Paragominas	Abel Figueiredo Bom Jesus do Tocantins Dom Eliseu Goianésia do Pará Paragominas Rondon do Pará Ulianópolis
Parauapebas	Água Azul do Norte Canaã dos Carajás Curionópolis Eldorado dos Carajás Parauapebas
Redenção	Pau d'Arco Piçarra Redenção Rio Maria São Geraldo do Araguaia Sapucaia Xinguara
São Félix do Xingu	Bannach Cumaru do Norte Ourilândia do Norte São Félix do Xingu Tucumã
Tucurui	Breu Branco Itupiranga Jacundá Nova Ipixuna Novo Repartimento Tucuruí

Mesoregion
Southwestern Pará

Altamira	Altamira Anapu Brasil Novo Medicilândia Pacajá Senador José Porfírio Uruará Vitória do Xingu
Itaituba	Aveiro Itaituba Jacareacanga Novo Progresso Rurópolis Trairão