Alenquer, Pará


Alenquer is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. The town is located on the northern bank of the Amazon River, roughly across from the city of Santarém.

Conservation

The municipality contains roughly half of the Mulata National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001.
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 2% of the Trombetas State Forest, created in 2006.