Óbidos, Pará


Óbidos is a municipality in Pará, Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. It's an old town founded in 1697, and located between Santarém and Oriximiná. The town is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after Óbidos, Portugal.

Climate

The climate is tropical monsoon, with great differences in precipitation according to the seasons.

Conservation

The north of the municipality contains part of the Grão-Pará Ecological Station, the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.
It contains 10% of the Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.

''Sobral Santos II'' disaster

Óbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking of in September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém and Manaus and was claimed to be overcrowded when it sank in Óbidos harbour. It is assumed over 300 people died in the disaster, with hundreds of bodies and body parts never identified.