Macapá
Macapá is the capital of Amapá, and one of the most deserted state capitals of Brazil. The locals call it "the capital of the middle of the world", as the equator runs through the city. In 2020, it was home to 513,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Allice Hunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Sadamity, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Macapá-Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport and St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Macapá.
Macapá-Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Jorge Andrade, CC BY 2.0.
Macapá−Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport is the airport serving Macapá, Brazil. Since April 22, 2009 the airport is named after Alberto Alcolumbre, a local businessman. The airport is operated by Consortium Novo Norte.
St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Macapá
Church
Photo: Jorge Andrade, CC BY 2.0.
The St. Joseph's Cathedral Also Macapá Cathedral is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and serves as the cathedral of Macapá City north of the South American country of Brazil.
Central Market of Macapá
Marketplace
Photo: Perci Hong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Central Market of Macapá is a public market in the city of Macapá that was considered the shopping stronghold of the families of Amapá in the 1950s.
Macapá
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Amapá, North, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
0.0402° or 0° 2′ 25″ northLongitude
-51.057° or 51° 3′ 25″ westPopulation
443,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
MCPUnited Nations Location Code
BR MCPOpen location code
68GC2WRV+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 339722677OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3396016Wikidata ID
Q180215
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Macapá” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماكابا”
- Armenian: “Մակապա”
- Asturian: “Macapá”
- Basque: “Macapá”
- Belarusian: “Макапа”
- Bengali: “মাকাপ্পা”
- Bishnupriya: “মাকাপা”
- Bulgarian: “Макапа”
- Catalan: “Macapa”
- Catalan: “Macapá”
- Cebuano: “Macapá”
- Chinese: “Macapá”
- Chinese: “馬卡帕”
- Chinese: “马卡帕”
- Croatian: “Macapa”
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- Czech: “Macapa”
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- Danish: “Macapá”
- Dutch: “Macapa”
- Dutch: “Macapá”
- Esperanto: “Macapa”
- Esperanto: “Macapá”
- Esperanto: “Makapao”
- Estonian: “Macapá”
- Finnish: “Macapa”
- Finnish: “Macapá”
- French: “Macapa”
- French: “Macapá”
- Galician: “Macapa”
- Galician: “Macapá”
- Georgian: “მაკაპა”
- German: “Macapá”
- Greek: “Μακαπά”
- Gujarati: “માકાપા”
- Hebrew: “מקאפה”
- Hindi: “मकापा”
- Hungarian: “Macapa”
- Hungarian: “Macapá”
- Ido: “Macapa”
- Ido: “Macapá”
- Indonesian: “Macapa”
- Indonesian: “Macapá”
- Interlingua: “Macapá”
- Irish: “Macapa”
- Irish: “Macapá”
- Italian: “Macapa”
- Italian: “Macapá”
- Italian: “Macapà”
- Japanese: “マカパ”
- Japanese: “マカパー”
- Kannada: “ಮಕಾಪಾ”
- Kazakh: “Makapa”
- Kazakh: “Макапа”
- Kazakh: “ماكاپا”
- Korean: “마카파”
- Latvian: “Makapa”
- Lithuanian: “Macapá”
- Lithuanian: “Makapa”
- Malagasy: “Macapá”
- Malay: “Macapa”
- Marathi: “मकापा”
- Mazanderani: “ماکاپا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Macapa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Macapá”
- Mirandese: “Ñacapá”
- Northern Frisian: “Macapá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Macapa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Macapá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Macapa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Macapá”
- Norwegian: “Macapá”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Macapa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Macapá”
- Ossetian: “Макапа”
- Persian: “ماکاپا”
- Polish: “Macapa”
- Polish: “Macapá”
- Portuguese: “Capital do Meio do Mundo”
- Portuguese: “Macapa”
- Portuguese: “Macapá”
- Portuguese: “MCP”
- Portuguese: “Sam Joze de Macapá”
- Portuguese: “São José de Macapá”
- Romanian: “Macapa”
- Romanian: “Macapá”
- Russian: “Macapá”
- Russian: “Макапа”
- Scots: “Macapa”
- Scots: “Macapá”
- Serbian: “Macapá”
- Serbian: “Makapa”
- Serbian: “Макапа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Macapa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Macapá”
- Sinhala: “මකපා”
- Spanish: “Alcalde de Macapa”
- Spanish: “Alcalde de Macapá”
- Spanish: “Macapa”
- Spanish: “Macapá”
- Swahili: “Macapa”
- Swahili: “Macapá”
- Swedish: “Macapá (delstatshuvudstad)”
- Swedish: “Macapa”
- Swedish: “Macapá”
- Tajik: “Makapa”
- Tajik: “Макапа”
- Tamil: “மகாபா”
- Tatar: “Макапа”
- Telugu: “మకాపా”
- Tetum: “Macapá”
- Thai: “มากาปา”
- Turkish: “Macapa”
- Turkish: “Macapá”
- Ukrainian: “Макапа”
- Urdu: “ماکاپا”
- Uzbek: “Macapa”
- Venetian: “Macapá”
- Vietnamese: “Macapa”
- Vietnamese: “Macapá”
- Volapük: “Macapa”
- Volapük: “Macapá”
- Waray (Philippines): “Macapa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Macapá”
- Welsh: “Macapá”
- Western Panjabi: “ماکاپا”
- Wu Chinese: “马卡帕”
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