Anapurus
Anapurus is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. In February 2012, debris from an Ariane 4 rocket, originally launched in 1997, fell out of orbit and landed in Anapurus.Anapurus
- Type: Town with 13,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Anapurus, Maranhão, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-3.67513° or 3° 40′ 31″ south
Longitude
-43.1046° or 43° 6′ 17″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
Open location code
688R8VFW+W5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Anapurus” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Անապուրուս”
- Basque: “Anapurus”
- Bishnupriya: “আনাপুরুস”
- Bulgarian: “Анапурус”
- Catalan: “Anapurus”
- Cebuano: “Anapurus”
- Chechen: “Анапурус”
- Chinese: “Anapurus”
- Chinese: “阿纳普鲁斯”
- Dutch: “Anapurus”
- French: “Anapurus”
- Georgian: “ანაპურუსი”
- German: “Anapurus”
- Hungarian: “Anapurus”
- Irish: “Anapurus”
- Italian: “Anapurus”
- Kazakh: “Anapwrws”
- Kazakh: “Анапурус”
- Kazakh: “اناپۋرۋس”
- Mazanderani: “اناپوراس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Anapurus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Anapurus”
- Norwegian: “Anapurus”
- Persian: “آناپوروس”
- Persian: “اناپوراس”
- Portuguese: “Anapurus”
- Romanian: “Anapurus”
- Russian: “Анапурус”
- Spanish: “Anapurus”
- Swedish: “Anapurus”
- Tatar: “Анапурус”
- Turkish: “Anapurus”
- Uzbek: “Anapurus”
- Vietnamese: “Anapurus”
- Volapük: “Anapurus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Anapurus”
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