Tanguá

Tanguá
Tanguá
Municipality
	Município de Tanguá
	Flag Coat of arms
	Nickname: Capital Pioneira das Telecomunicações
	Location of Tanguá in the state of Rio de Janeiro
	Tanguá Location of Tanguá in Brazil
	Coordinates: 22°43′48″S 42°42′50″W / 22.73000°S 42.71389°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	Rio de Janeiro
Government
• Prefeito	Anderson Pereira de Oliveira (Coroné Anderson)
Area
• Total	145,503 km2 (56,179 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (66 ft)
Population (2020 )
• Total	34,610
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
Website

Tanguá (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐ̃ˈgwa]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It covers an area of 145.5 km² (56.2 sq mi).^[2]

Its population is relatively stable, with 29,481 in 2005^[3] and 30,732 in 2010,^[2] most of them urban.^[2] This equates to a population density of 211 inhabitants per km².^[2]

The municipality contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic of conservation units, created in 2006.^[4] It contains the 878 hectares (2,170 acres) Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park, created in 2007 to protect an area of Atlantic Forest.^[5]

References

↑ IBGE 2020
1 2 3 4 Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011
↑ Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007
↑ Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-07, retrieved 2016-10-02
↑ Pereira, Carlos Roberto (23 October 2007), Lei nº. 0633, de 23 de Outubro de 2007 (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-05

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[1] IBGE 2020

[ibge-2011-2] 1 2 3 4 Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011

[3] Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007

[4] Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-07, retrieved 2016-10-02

[5] Pereira, Carlos Roberto (23 October 2007), Lei nº. 0633, de 23 de Outubro de 2007 (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-05

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