Carutapera

Carutapera is the northernmost city in the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Carutapera
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.official_name: The Municipality ofCarutapera
Settlement.image_flag: Bandeira_de_Carutapera.svg
Settlement.image_map: Maranhao Municip Carutapera.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Carutapera
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Northeast
Settlement.subdivision_name2: border|22px Maranhão
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Airton Marques Silva
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: June 3, 1935
Settlement.area_total_km2: 1255.555
Settlement.population_as_of: 2020
Settlement.population_total: 23,952

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Demonym: carutaperense
Population: 32037
Area: 1255
Elevation: 3
Official website: www.carutapera.ma.gov.br/principal.htm
Image: FOTOS NA TORRE DA IGREJA MATRIZ.jpg
Dialing code: 98

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Commons category: Carutapera
inception: 1935-01-01
electorate: 16606
Human Development Index: 0.556

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Carutapera is the northernmost city in the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

== History == In 1861, Firmino Pantoja and his wife, Augusta Pantoja, acquiring land from Manoel Rodrigues Leite Chaves, on the right bank of the Arapiranga River, founded the village that was called Carutapera. The toponym, of Tupi origin, means abandoned village. The population progressed rapidly. In 1886, it was elevated to the category of village later extinct and its territory annexed to the municipality of Turiaçu. In 1935, the autonomy of Carutapera was re-established[²].