Quissamã
Sign in to saveQuissamã () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It sits on Atlantic coastline with the two largest neighboring cities being Campos dos Goytacazes to the north and Macaé to the south. Quissamã was part of the municipality of Macaé until the city emancipated in 1989. The population has surpassed 20,000 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census. The city's primary source of tax revenue comes from oil royalties collected from drilling in the waters just off its coast.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Quissamã is referenced by 110 other articles, and connects out to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Municipalities in Rio de Janeiro (state) and Populated coastal places in Rio de Janeiro (state).
Its subject is documented across 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Quissamã
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Quissamã downtown with Our Lady of Desterro Church in the center, main square and City Hall in lower side.
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira Quissama RiodeJaneiro Brasil.svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasao-quissama.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- RiodeJaneiro Municip Quissama.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Quisamã in Rio de Janeiro State and Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southeast
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Rio de Janeiro
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Fátima Pacheco ( 2017 - atual )
- Settlement.established_title
- Colonization started
- Settlement.established_date
- 1633
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- quissamaense
- Population
- 10467
- Area
- 715.877
- Elevation
- 20
- Official website
- www.quissama.rj.gov.br
- Dialing code
- 22
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- Commons category
- Quissamã
- Human Development Index
- 0.704
- electorate
- 18954
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Encyclopedic overview
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Quissamã () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It sits on Atlantic coastline with the two largest neighboring cities being Campos dos Goytacazes to the north and Macaé to the south. Quissamã was part of the municipality of Macaé until the city emancipated in 1989. The population has surpassed 20,000 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census. The city's primary source of tax revenue comes from oil royalties collected from drilling in the waters just off its coast.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quissamã” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations