Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State, Southeast Region, Brazil

History | Economy | Transport | Geography : Location

🇧🇷 Angra dos Reis is a Brazilian municipality located in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro state. Angra is located at an altitude of 6 meters and includes in its territory many offshore islands, the largest being the Ilha Grande.

The area was first documented by Europeans on January 6, 1502, and has been under continual settlement since 1556.

History The port municipality fell into decline after 1872, having been bypassed by the advent of railways. It came back into prominence in the 1920s, when a railway extension connected it to the states of Minas Gerais and Goias, as a terminus for the transportation of agriculture production from these same two states. The railway extension, in metre gauge, still exists and is currently operated by the Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica company.

In the mid-twentieth century, the municipality was an essential part of the implementation of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional – CSN, Volta Redonda, and the endpoint for coking coal supplied from Santa Catarina. Today, the same company also uses the port for some of its steel exports.

Its current importance is due, in part, to having a ferry terminal facility in the Bay of Ilha Grande and its harbour, used by TEBIG Petrobras, which transports large quantities of crude oil, and thus positions the port of Angra dos Reis as one of the busiest in the country.

Today, because of its beaches and nearby points of interest, the place has become a focal point for tourism. Within the municipality are over three hundred islands, many of them owned by celebrities, with the largest island being Ilha Grande (Big Island). The Brazilian plastic surgeon and philanthropist Ivo Pitanguy was a noted resident.

Most of the region consists of hilly terrain, which helped generate the landslides that occurred at the beginning of 2010, when numerous homes and hotels were severely damaged or destroyed, mainly on Ilha Grande.

Economy The most important economic activities are commerce, fishing, industry, services, and tourism. The port has an oil terminal as well as shipbuilding (Keppel Fels, former Verolme) facilities. Brazil's nuclear power stations, Angra I and Angra II are located nearby. They employ 3,000 people, and generate another 10,000 indirect jobs in Rio de Janeiro State. Tourism is highly developed, with beaches, islands and clean waters for swimming or scuba diving. The nuclear power stations also warm the area's waters with their thermal discharges, a form of thermal pollution.

There is a small amount of cattle raising, with approximately 4,200 head. The main agricultural products cultivated are: • bananas: 1,460 hectares / 3,600 tons • coconut: 10 hectares / 130,000 units • oranges: 4 hectares / 25 tons • hearts of palm (palmito): 50 hectares / 75 tons • sugarcane: 20 hectares / 390 tons.

Transport The city is served by Angra dos Reis Airport.

Geography: Location Angra dos Reis has an area of 816.3 km². The neighboring municipalities are Paraty, Rio Claro and Mangaratiba in Rio de Janeiro state, and Bananal and São José do Barreiro, which are adjacent in São Paulo state.

The municipality contains the 12,072 hectares (29,830 acres) Ilha Grande State Park, created in 1971 on the Ilha Grande off the southern coast. It contains the 3,502 hectares (8,650 acres) Praia do Sul Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1981 on the Ilha Grande. It contains the 1,312 hectares (3,240 acres) Aventureiro Sustainable Development Reserve, formerly the Aventureiro Marine State Park, also on Ilha Grande. The municipality also contains part of the Tamoios Ecological Station. The conservation units are contained within the 12,400 hectares (31,000 acres) Tamoios Environmental Protection Area, created in 1982.

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Angra dos Reis has a population of over 207,000 people. Angra dos Reis also forms part of the wider Rio de Janeiro State which has a population of over 17,264,943 people.

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Antipodal to Angra dos Reis is: 135.687,23.007

Locations Near: Angra dos Reis -44.3131,-23.0071

🇧🇷 Barra Mansa -44.169,-22.541 d: 53.9  

🇧🇷 Volta Redonda -44.094,-22.505 d: 60.2  

🇧🇷 Resende -44.446,-22.468 d: 61.4  

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🇧🇷 Japeri -43.656,-22.643 d: 78.6  

🇧🇷 Campo Grande -43.56,-22.894 d: 78.1  

🇧🇷 Queimados -43.555,-22.716 d: 84.2  

🇧🇷 Nova Iguaçu -43.451,-22.755 d: 92.7  

🇧🇷 Nilópolis -43.414,-22.81 d: 94.7  

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