Formosa do Rio Preto

Formosa do Rio Preto
Municipality
The Municipality of Formosa do Rio Preto
Localization of the city
Coordinates: 11°02′52″S 45°11′34″W
Country	Brazil
Region	Northeast
State	Bahia
Founded	December 22, 1961
Government
• Mayor	Manoel Afonso de Araujo (PMN)
Area
• Total	16,185.171 km^2 (6,249.129 sq mi)
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	25,857
• Density	1.3/km^2 (3/sq mi)
	[2]
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC11° 02' 52" S 45° 11' 34" O
HDI (2000)	0.646 – medium[3]

Formosa do Rio Preto is the westernmost and largest (by area) city in the Brazilian state of Bahia. It is also the largest in all Northeastern Brazil.

The municipality contains part of the 707,079 hectares (1,747,230 acres) Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2001 to preserve an area of cerrado.[4] It also contains part of the 724,324 hectares (1,789,840 acres) Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in 2002.[5]

See also

• List of municipalities in Bahia

References

1. IBGE 2020
2. IBGE 2008 statistics
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-12-17. UNDP
4. Unidade de Conservação: Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-28
5. Unidade de Conservação: Parque Nacional das Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-01