Mazagão

Mazagão
Municipality
Município de Mazagão
Mazagão in the state of Amapá
Mazagão Mazagão in the state of Amapá
Coordinates: 00°06′54″S 51°17′20″W / 0.11500°S 51.28889°W
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Amapá
Area
• Land	13,131 km^2 (5,070 sq mi)
Population
• Total	17,032
Time zone	UTC-3 (UTC-3)

Mazagão (Portuguese: Município de Mazagão) is a municipality located in the south of the state of Amapá in Brazil. Its population is 17,030 and its area is 13,131 square kilometres (5,070 sq mi).^[1]

The city was named after the Portuguese colony Mazagão in North Africa, now El Jadida, which the Portuguese abandoned in 1769 after some 250 years of occupation. Many of its inhabitants were evacuated to Brazil, where they founded a new settlement Nova Mazagão (0°12′59″S 51°25′55.6″W / 0.21639°S 51.432111°W), now known as Mazagão Velho.^[2]

References

1. "Mazagão" (in Portuguese). Macapá, Amapá, Brazil: Governo do Estado do Amapá. 2011. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
2. "Arqueologia de Mazagâo Velho". Site of the Department of Archaeology of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Retrieved 2013-02-20. (in Portuguese; the coordinates are under the image of the map of Brazil on the page; to see them pass your cursor over the image)