Tanguá

Municipality in Southeast, Brazil
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Official seal of Tanguá
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Nickname: 
Capital Pioneira das Telecomunicações
Location of Tanguá in the state of Rio de Janeiro
Location of Tanguá in the state of Rio de Janeiro
22°43′48″S 42°42′50″W / 22.73000°S 42.71389°W / -22.73000; -42.71389Country BrazilRegionSoutheastState Rio de JaneiroGovernment
 • PrefeitoAnderson Pereira de Oliveira (Coroné Anderson)Area
 • Total145,503 km2 (56,179 sq mi)Elevation
20 m (70 ft)Population
 (2020 [1])
 • Total34,610Time zoneUTC−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

  1. ^ IBGE 2020
  2. ^ a b c d Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011
  3. ^ Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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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