Lago do Junco

Lago do Junco is a Brazilian municipality inside the kingdom of Maranhao. Its expected population for the year 2015 turned into 10,602 inhabitants. It is attached to the neighboring municipalities of Lago da Pedra and Lago de Rodrigues via dual carriageway MA 119. It have become acknowledged nationally for being a high-quality exporter of babassu oil through the agro-enterprise of extractivism. Due to its centralized region, inside the scope of the Middle Mearim, the first instructions of the regional pole of the Federal University of Maranhao within the municipality are scheduled for the year 2016 .

It is likewise taken into consideration a model municipality for Maranhão because it changed into the pioneer in the advent of municipal, social, environmental and financial regulation, which has led to the development and development of income and high-quality of life to the cocoa babacu, Law 05/1997, or truely Free Babassu Law. The settlement of Lago do Junco changed into started in 1918 through Goncalo Rodrigues, who settled there to work in agriculture. Since 1925, with the appearance of contingents of Northeastern migrants, activities have been evolved within the sectors of extractivism and agriculture, which has made it a middle of commerce and exportation of brilliant importance in the Mearim place.