Brazil
Northeast
Maranhão

Alcântara

Alcântara is a town in , . Mostly visited on day trips from to get an even more colonial feeling.
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  • Type: Town with 18,500 residents
  • Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Alcantara, Brazil” and “Alcântara, Maranhão”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museu Histórico de Alcântara and Pillory of Alcantara.

Museum
Photo: JLPizzol, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Photo: GLandovsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Park
Photo: Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park.

Alcântara

Latitude
-2.4085° or 2° 24′ 31″ south
Longitude
-44.4174° or 44° 25′ 3″ west
Population
18,500
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
689QHHRM+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415524232
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6319634
Wiki­data ID
Q939522
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Alcântara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القنطرة”
  • Basque: “Alcântara”
  • Bulgarian: “Алкантара”
  • Catalan: “Alcântara”
  • Cebuano: “Alcântara (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Alcântara”
  • Chechen: “Алкантара”
  • Chinese: “Alcântara”
  • Chinese: “阿尔坎塔拉”
  • Dutch: “Alcântara”
  • Finnish: “Alcantara”
  • Finnish: “Alcântara”
  • French: “Alcantara”
  • French: “Alcântara”
  • German: “Alcantara”
  • German: “Alcântara”
  • Hebrew: “אלקנטרה”
  • Hungarian: “Alcântara”
  • Ido: “Alcântara, Maranhão”
  • Ido: “Alcântara”
  • Irish: “Alcântara”
  • Italian: “Alcântara”
  • Kazakh: “Alkantara”
  • Kazakh: “Алкантара”
  • Kazakh: “الكانتارا”
  • Lithuanian: “Alkantara (Brazilija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Alkantara”
  • Malagasy: “Alcântara”
  • Mazanderani: “آلکانتارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alcântara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alcântara”
  • Norwegian: “Alcântara”
  • Polish: “Alcântara”
  • Portuguese: “Alcântara”
  • Romanian: “Alcântara, Maranhão”
  • Romanian: “Alcântara”
  • Russian: “Алкантара”
  • Spanish: “Alcantara”
  • Spanish: “Alcántara”
  • Spanish: “Alcântara”
  • Swedish: “Alcântara (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Alcântara”
  • Tatar: “Алкантара”
  • Turkish: “Alcântara”
  • Ukrainian: “Алкантара”
  • Ukrainian: “Алькантара”
  • Vietnamese: “Alcântara”
  • Volapük: “Alcântara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alcântara, Maranhão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alcântara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alcântara”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.