Brazil
Northeast
Maranhão

São Bento

São Bento, Maranhão is a municipality in the state of in the of . The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6-hectare sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.
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  • Type: Town with 46,400 residents
  • Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Sao Bento” and “São Bento, Maranhão”

São Bento

Latitude
-2.6999° or 2° 41′ 60″ south
Longitude
-44.8331° or 44° 49′ 59″ west
Population
46,400
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
689Q8528+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415524225
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6319792
Wiki­data ID
Q2104116
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Waray—“São Bento” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սան Բենտու”
  • Basque: “São Bento”
  • Catalan: “São Bento”
  • Cebuano: “São Bento”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Бенту”
  • Chinese: “São Bento”
  • Chinese: “圣本图”
  • Dutch: “São Bento”
  • French: “São Bento”
  • Georgian: “სან-ბენტუ”
  • German: “São Bento”
  • Hungarian: “São Bento”
  • Irish: “São Bento”
  • Italian: “São Bento”
  • Kazakh: “San-Bentw”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Бенту”
  • Kazakh: “سان-بەنتۋ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “São Bento”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “São Bento”
  • Norwegian: “São Bento”
  • Polish: “São Bento”
  • Portuguese: “São Bento”
  • Romanian: “São Bento, Maranhão”
  • Romanian: “São Bento”
  • Russian: “Сан-Бенту”
  • Swedish: “São Bento”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Бенту”
  • Turkish: “São Bento”
  • Uzbek: “São Bento”
  • Volapük: “São Bento”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São Bento, Maranhão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São Bento”

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