Pio XII, Maranhão

Pio XII
Municipality
Location in Maranhão
Country	Brazil
Region	Nordeste
State	Maranhão
Mesoregion	Centro Maranhense
Area [1]
• Total	315.579 sq mi (817.346 km^2)
Population  (2020 [2])
• Total	21,379
• Density	69.8/sq mi (26.94/km^2)
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Pio XII is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.[3][4][5][6] The city gained international notoriety when Otávio Jordão da Silva, a referee at an amateur football match, was beheaded and quartered after he stabbed a player to death.[7]

It is named after Pope Pius XII.

The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6 hectares (4,386,208 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.[8]

See also

• List of municipalities in Maranhão

References

1. IBGE. "Área territorial oficial". Resolução da Presidência do IBGE de n° 5 (R.PR-5/02). Retrieved 25 June 2017.
2. IBGE 2020
3. "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). 1 July 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
4. "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Retrieved 25 June 2017.
5. "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010.
6. "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2008.
7. "Brazilian referee beheaded by spectators after he fatally stabs player". 6 July 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
8. APA Baixada Maranhense (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 25 June 2017

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