Macapá

Macapá is the capital of , 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.
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  • Type: City with 443,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Amapá state, Brazil
  • Also known as: Macapa”, “MCP”, “Sam Joze de Macapá”, and “São José de Macapá
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Macapá-Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport and St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Macapá.

Aerodrome
Macapá−Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport is the airport serving Macapá, . Since April 22, 2009 the airport is named after Alberto Alcolumbre, a local businessman. The airport is operated by Consortium Novo Norte.

Church
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 .

Marketplace
The is a public market in the city of Macapá that was considered the shopping stronghold of the families of in the 1950s.

Macapá

Latitude
0.0402° or 0° 2′ 25″ north
Longitude
-51.057° or 51° 3′ 25″ west
Population
443,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
MCP
United Nations Location Code
BR MCP
Open location code
68GC2WRV+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 339722677
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3396016
Wiki­data 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
  • Croatian: Macapá
  • Czech: Macapa
  • Czech: Macapá
  • 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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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 “Macapá”. Photo: Sadamity, CC BY-SA 4.0.