Mazagão
Nova do Anauerapucú
Municipality
Município de Mazagão
Festival of São Tiago in Mazagão Velho
Festival of São Tiago in Mazagão Velho
Flag of Mazagão
Flag
Official seal of Mazagão
Seal
Mazagão in the state of Amapá
Mazagão in the state of Amapá
Mazagão is located in Brazil
Mazagão
Mazagão
Coordinates: 00°06′54″S 51°17′20″W / 0.11500°S 51.28889°W / -0.11500; -51.28889
CountryBrazil Brazil
RegionNorth
State Amapá
Government
 • MayorJoão da Silva Costa (PPL)
Area
 • Land13,131 km2 (5,070 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total22,053
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

Mazagão (Portuguese: Município de Mazagão, [mazɐˈɡɐ̃w]) is a municipality located in the south of the state of Amapá in Brazil. Its population is 22,053[1] and its area is 13,131 square kilometres (5,070 sq mi).[2] Mazagão Velho located in the municipality of Mazagão is known for the Festival of São Tiago which takes place between 16 and 28 July, and re-enacts the war between the Moors and Christians.[3]

Overview

The city was named after the Portuguese colony Mazagão in North Africa, now El Jadida, in which the Portuguese got kicked in 1769 after some 250 years of occupation. Many of its inhabitants were evacuated to Brazil, where they founded a new settlement Nova Mazagão, now known as Mazagão Velho.[4] A total of 340 families arrived in the city of Belém in 1770 and in 1773 went to Nova Mazagão. One of the main theories on the origin of the name of Mazagaon - one of the original Seven Islands of Bombay and still a historic neighborhood of Mumbai, India - derives this name, too, from the Moroccan city, since both were under Portuguese rule in the same time.

Mazagão Velho started to decline and Novo do Anauerapucú started become the bigger town. The town of Anauerapucú became the capital of an independent municipality in 1915, and was renamed Mazagão.[5][3] Mazagão can be reached by the AP-010 from Santana and Macapá.[6]

Geography

The municipality contains 44% of the 501,771 hectares (1,239,900 acres) Rio Cajari Extractive Reserve, created in 1990.[7] It contains 19% of the 806,184 hectares (1,992,120 acres) Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 1997.[8] It contains part of the Jari Ecological Station.[9] It also contains 8.56% of the 2,369,400 hectares (5,855,000 acres) Amapá State Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 2006.[10]

Economy

Mazagão is known for its pottery and ceramics. A major part of the economy is based on livestock in particular cattle and buffalo, and forestry centred around the Brazil nut and rubber tree.[3]

Subdivions

The municipality of Mazagão is subdivided in three districts:[11]

References

  1. ↑ IBGE 2020
  2. ↑ "Mazagão" (in Portuguese). Macapá, Amapá, Brazil: Governo do Estado do Amapá. 2011. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mazagão". Government of Amapá (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Arqueologia de Mazagâo Velho". Site of the Department of Archaeology of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2013. (in Portuguese; the coordinates are under the image of the map of Brazil on the page; to see them pass your cursor over the image)
  5. ↑ Cardeira da Silva, Maria; Silva Tavim, José Alberto (2013). Marrocos no Brasil: Mazagão (Velho) do Amapá em festa – a festa de São Tiago (PDF) (in Portuguese). Etnográfica Press. p. 12.
  6. ↑ "Obra da Rodovia AP-010 fortalece setor primário e turístico em Mazagão". Diário do Amapá (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  7. ↑ RESEX do Rio Cajari (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 6 November 2016
  8. ↑ RDS do Rio Iratapuru (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 5 November 2016
  9. ↑ Figueiredo, João (13 March 1984), "DECRETO Nº 89.440, DE 13 DE MARÇO DE 1984", Brazilian Federal Senate (in Portuguese), Brazilian Government, retrieved 10 March 2016
  10. ↑ FES do Amapá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 6 July 2016
  11. ↑ "Mazagão". IBGE (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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