🇧🇷 Mesquita is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. The municipality contains part of the 4,398 hectares (10,870 acres) Mendanha State Park, created in 2013. The name is a reference to the second Baron of Mesquita, Jerônimo Roberto de Mesquita, the owner of the old farms (fazendas) in the present central region of the municipality.
Mesquita has a population of over 176,600 people. Mesquita also forms part of the wider Rio de Janeiro state which has a population of over 17,463,349 people.
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