Óbidos, Pará, Northern Region, Brazil
:BR: Óbidos is a municipality in Pará, Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. The town was founded in 1697, and is located between Santarém and Oriximiná. It is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after Óbidos, Portugal.
Conservation The north of the municipality contains part (7.36%) of the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet. It contains 10% of the 3,172,978 hectares (7,840,600 acres) Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.
Transport Óbidos is served by Óbidos Airport.
Sobral Santos II disaster Óbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking of Sobral Santos II in September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém and Manaus and was claimed to be overcrowded when it sank in Óbidos harbour. It is assumed over 300 people died in the disaster, with hundreds of bodies and body parts never identified.
Villages • Missão Tiriyó
Óbidos has a population of over 52,306 people. Óbidos also forms the centre of the wider Óbidos District which has a population of over 211,269 people. It is also a part of the larger Baixo Amazonas Region.
To set up a UBI Lab for Óbidos see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork