Altamira

Altamira is one in all 140,4 municipalities within the country of Para, in northern Brazil. It has a place of 161,446 rectangular kilometres or 62,335 square miles, making it the largest municipality with the aid of area each in Para state and Brazil and till 2009 it changed into the sector's largest municipal subdivision. It occupies 12.8% of the country's territory, 1.8% of the Brazilian territory and 0.8% of the South American territory. It additionally covers a extra full-size place than 104 countries such as Bangladesh, which covers 147,570 rectangular kilometres, and is comparable to the USA State of Missouri and overall place of Florida.

Altamira Municipality encompasses the Altamira city and district, the seat of local government, whose majority populace lives in urban area, and 9 different typically rural districts, whose city populations are minorities, and stay in inhabited areas spaced by way of tens or masses of kilometers. According to the 2010 Brazilian National Census the municipality has 99, half inhabitants, creating a density of only 0.65 population in step with rectangular kilometer at the same year. It is domestic to hundreds of indigenous groups and environmental protection areas. The notorious Belo Monte Dam, a hydroelectric dam complex is presently underneath creation inside the location of the Xingu River inside the municipality.