Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Central-West
- State
- Mato Grosso
- Founded
- 6 October 1778
- Mayor
- Antônia Eliene Liberato Dias ( PSB )
- Total
- 24,495.510 km (9,457.769 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 126 m (413 ft)
- Density
- 3.6611/km (9.4823/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−4 ( BRT )
- Hdi 2010
- 0.708 – high
- Website
- caceres .mt .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Demonym
- cacerense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Mato Grosso
- Population
- 77540
- Area
- 24351.408
- Elevation
- 223
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Body of water
- Paraguay River
- Shares border with
- Porto Estrela
- Official website
- www.caceres.mt.gov.br
- Image
- Catedral de São Luís2.JPG
- Dialing code
- 65
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- postal code
- 78200-000
- Commons category
- Cáceres (Mato Grosso)
- Human Development Index
- 0.801
- inception
- 1778-10-06
- electorate
- 56666
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Encyclopedic overview
Cáceres is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It covers an area of 24,000 km and as of 2022 had an estimated population of 89,681.
The town is sited on the Paraguay River, and hosts a popular fishing festival each September. The municipality contains part of the Serra das Araras Ecological Station. It also contains part of the Taiamã Ecological Station. The municipality contains the 114,000 hectares (280,000 acres) Guirá State Park, created in 2002.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cáceres” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.