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Area:
1.201 km².
Population:
19.800
inhabitants.
Main activities:
extrativismo and
tourism.
DDD:
98 and 99
Distances of the main cities:
São Luís, 53 km; Rio de
Janeiro, 2.852 km; São Paulo: 3.084 km.
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The first
impression that one have is a city that stopped in the time. However,
there the Aeronautics installed your release center, that gets ready to
throw satellites to the space. It is I eat if past and future, ignoring
the present, if they united in a same place. It was there that, 300 years
ago, the Portuguese got ready for São Luís of French to come back. The
city became capital of the rural from Maranhão aristocracy served by 8
thousand slaves, whose descendants are today most of your population.
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