Alter do Chão
Alter do Chão is a beach town and an administrative district of the municipality of Santarém, in the state of Pará, 37 km south of the center of the city via road PA-457, on the right bank of the Tapajós River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 6,740 residents
- Description: beach in Santarém, Pará, Brazil
- Also known as: “Alter do Chao”, “Alter do Chão, Pará”, “Alter do Chão, Santarém”, and “Brazilian Caribe”
Alter do Chão
- Categories: municipality district of Brazil, beach, and locality
- Location: Santarém, Pará, North, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-2.5161° or 2° 30′ 58″ southLongitude
-54.9497° or 54° 56′ 59″ westPopulation
6,740Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
6897F3M2+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 416647301OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3407874Wikidata ID
Q225060
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Alter do Chão” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Alter do Chao (Brazilie)”
- Dutch: “Alter do Chão”
- French: “Alter do chao”
- French: “Alter-do-Chao”
- French: “Alter-do-Chão”
- Hebrew: “אלטר דו שאו”
- Malagasy: “Alter-do-Chão”
- Portuguese: “Alter do Chão (Santarém)”
- Portuguese: “Alter do Chão”
- Portuguese: “Alter-do-chão”
- Portuguese: “Caribe brasileiro”
- Turkish: “Alter do Chão”
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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 “Alter do Chão”. Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.