Santo Antônio do Içá

Santo Antônio do Içá
View from the ship F/B Vitória Régia in 2024
Location in Amazonas state
Santo Antônio do Içá
Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 3°6′7″S 67°56′24″W / 3.10194°S 67.94000°W / -3.10194; -67.94000
CountryBrazil
RegionNorth
StateAmazonas
MicroregionAlto Solimões
Area
 • Total
12,307 km2 (4,752 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
21,243
 • Density1.7/km2 (4.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−4 (AMT)
Postal code
69680-xxx
Area code+55 97

Santo Antônio do Içá is a community and a municipality in the state of Amazonas near the Colombian border in Brazil. The population is 21,243 (2020 est.)[1] in an area of 12,307 km².[2] The municipality was created in 1955 out of São Paulo de Olivença. The city is served by Ipiranga Airport.

The municipality contains the 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, created in 1985.[3] It contains parts of the Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station.[4]

References

  1. ^ IBGE 2020
  2. ^ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
  3. ^ ARIE Javari-Buriti (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  4. ^ Unidade de Conservação: Estação Ecológica de Jutaí-Solimões (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-04{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)