Raposa
Raposa is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. It is the smallest municipality of Maranhão. The municipality contains part of the 1,535,310-hectare Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Environmental Protection Area, created in 1992.Raposa
- Type: Town with 30,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Maranhão, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-2.441° or 2° 26′ 28″ south
Longitude
-44.1104° or 44° 6′ 38″ west
Population
30,800
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
689QHV5Q+HR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Raposa” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռապոզա”
- Basque: “Raposa”
- Bishnupriya: “রাপোসা”
- Catalan: “Raposa”
- Cebuano: “Raposa”
- Chechen: “Рапоза”
- Chinese: “Raposa”
- Chinese: “拉波萨”
- Dutch: “Raposa”
- French: “Raposa”
- Georgian: “რაპოზა”
- German: “Raposa”
- Hungarian: “Raposa”
- Irish: “Raposa”
- Italian: “Raposa”
- Kazakh: “Rapoza”
- Kazakh: “Рапоза”
- Kazakh: “راپوزا”
- Malagasy: “Raposa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Raposa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raposa”
- Norwegian: “Raposa”
- Polish: “Raposa”
- Portuguese: “Raposa”
- Romanian: “Raposa”
- Russian: “Рапоза”
- Spanish: “Raposa”
- Swedish: “Raposa”
- Tatar: “Рапоза”
- Turkish: “Raposa”
- Urdu: “راپوسا، برازیل”
- Uzbek: “Raposa”
- Vietnamese: “Raposa”
- Volapük: “Raposa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Raposa”
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