Formosa do Rio Preto

Formosa do Rio Preto is the westernmost and largest by means of region city in the Brazilian kingdom of Bahia. It is also the biggest in all Northeastern Brazil. The Northeast Region of Brazil Portuguese: Regiao Nordeste do Brasil is one of the five official and political regions of the us of a in step with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. For the socio-geographic vicinity see Nordeste. Of Brazil's twenty-six states, it accommodates 9: Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, along with the Fernando de Noronha archipelago.

The municipality carries part of the 707,079 hectares Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2001 to maintain a place of cerrado. It additionally consists of a part of the 724,324 hectares Nascentes do Rio Parnaiba National Park, created in 2002. Nascentes do Rio Parnaiba National Park is a national park of Brazil. The park is inside the cerrado biome. It covers 724,324 hectares.