Tanguá

Tanguá
Tanguá
Municipality
	Município de Tanguá
	Flag Seal
	Nickname: Capital Pioneira das Telecomunicações
	Location of Tanguá in the state of Rio de Janeiro
	Tanguá Location of Tanguá in Brazil
	Coordinates: 22°43′48″S 42°42′50″W / 22.73000°S 42.71389°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	Rio de Janeiro
Government
• Prefeito	Valber Luiz Marcelo de Carvalho (PTB)
Area
• Total	145.503 km2 (56.179 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	30,732
Time zone	UTC-3 (UTC-3)
Website	[1]

Tanguá (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐ̃ˈgwa]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It covers an area of 145,5 km².^[1]

Its population is relatively stable, with 29.481 in 2005^[2] and 30.732 in 2010,^[1] most of them urban.^[1] This equates to a population density of 211 inhabitants per km².^[1]

The municipality contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic of conservation units, created in 2006.^[3] It contains the 878 hectares (2,170 acres) Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park, created in 2007 to protect an area of Atlantic Forest.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011
^ Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007
^ Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, retrieved 2016-10-02
^ Pereira, Carlos Roberto (23 October 2007), Lei nº. 0633, de 23 de Outubro de 2007 (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-05

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[ibge-2011-1] Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011

[2] Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007

[3] Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, retrieved 2016-10-02

[4] Pereira, Carlos Roberto (23 October 2007), Lei nº. 0633, de 23 de Outubro de 2007 (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-05

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