Carajás_Mountains

Carajás Mountains

Carajás Mountains

Brazilian mountain range

The Carajás Mountains or Serra dos Carajás are a mountain range to the west of the municipality of Marabá in the Pará state of Brazil. Monte Redenção, Marabá's highest point,[citation needed] is located there.

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The mountains are contained in the Carajás National Forest, a 411,949 hectares (1,017,950 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    FLONA de Carajás (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-05-30

Further reading

  • Newton Pereira de Rezende, Carajás: memórias da descoberta, Editora Gráfica Stamppa, 2009, 316 pg. Book in Portuguese telling the history of Carajás' iron mines' discovery.


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