Açailândia, Maranhão, Northeast Region, Brazil


🇧🇷 Açailândia is a Brazilian municipality in the western part of Maranhão State, at an elevation of 787 feet. It is the eighth largest city in the state. The name of the city means "land of the açaí".

The city is an important centre of agribusiness, the area having the largest cattle stock in Maranhão. The production of pig iron is the municipality's biggest single economic activity. Açailândia is part of the Carajas Development Corridor and the city houses many of the workers who produce charcoal in the area. The city has one of the most important railway stations on the Carajás Railway line.

Açailândia's origins are recent, lying in the construction of the Belém-Brasília highway in 1958, when the fertile lands in the vicinity of the Açailândia Creek came to the attention of those engaged in building the highway. For some time, Açailândia was considered a district of the city of Imperatriz, the second largest city in the state of Maranhão.

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Açailândia has a population of over 113,121 people. Açailândia also forms part of the wider Maranhão state which has a population of over 7,075,181 people.

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Antipodal to Açailândia is: 132.5,4.933

Locations Near: Açailândia -47.5,-4.93333

🇧🇷 Imperatriz -47.478,-5.526 d: 66  

🇧🇷 Bico do Papagaio -47.67,-5.65 d: 81.9  

🇧🇷 Marabá -49.117,-5.35 d: 184.9  

🇧🇷 Paragominas -47.483,-2.967 d: 218.7  

🇧🇷 Araguaína -48.208,-7.192 d: 263.1  

🇧🇷 Tailândia -48.758,-2.874 d: 268.1  

🇧🇷 Tucuruí -49.667,-3.767 d: 273  

🇧🇷 Santa Inês -45.383,-3.667 d: 273.7  

🇧🇷 Parauapebas -49.91,-6.068 d: 295  

🇧🇷 Bacabal -44.78,-4.222 d: 311.7  

Antipodal to: Açailândia 132.5,4.933

🇵🇼 Ngerulmud 134.627,7.487 d: 19646.4  

🇮🇩 Sorong 131.293,-0.867 d: 19356.4  

🇮🇩 Manokwari 134.083,-0.867 d: 19346.6  

🇵🇭 Mati 126.23,6.95 d: 19286.3  

🇮🇩 Ternate 127.367,0.767 d: 19280.6  

🇮🇩 Tidore 127.4,0.683 d: 19277.5  

🇵🇭 Maragusan 126.124,7.317 d: 19262  

🇵🇭 Bislig 126.32,8.214 d: 19241.1  

🇵🇭 Nabunturan 125.966,7.601 d: 19234.4  

🇵🇭 Monkayo 126.054,7.824 d: 19233.7  

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