page_title: Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area / Location
context_page_description: The Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area is an environmental protection area in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects two coastal islands with beaches, dunes, mangroves and wetlands that are home to fishing people and are popular with tourists.
context_section_description: The Algodoal-Maiandeua Environmental Protection Area is in the municipality of Maracanã, Pará.
  It is on the northeast coast of Pará in the Salgado microregion.
  The Atlantic Ocean is to the north and the Mocooca channel to the south. 
  The Maracanã River estuary is to the east and the Marapanim River estuary to the west.
  The APA is bounded to the south by the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve.
  The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve is opposite the APA to the west.
  The APA has an area of about 3,100.34 hectares (7,661.1 acres) and consists of two islands separated by an intermittent tidal channel called the Furo Velho.
  Algodoal Island has 605.52 hectares (1,496.3 acres) and contains Algodoal village, Princesa Beach, Farol Beach and areas of mangroves, restingas and dunes.
  The island and the largest village are named "Algodoal" after a native plant, the algodão de seda.
  Maiandeua island has 2,494.82 hectares (6,164.8 acres) and holds the villages of Fortalezinha, Mocooca and Camboinha, the localities of Camaleão, Passagem and Pedra Chorona, and beaches, mangroves and terra firme areas with vegetation.
  The villages are separated by areas of mangroves and tidal channels.
  The village of Algodoal can be reached by boat from the port of Marudá, a journey of about 40 minutes depending on the tide.
  A boat from the municipality of Maracanã can cross the Mocooca channel to the village of Mocooca in 5 minutes.
caption: Conservation units northeast of Belém
  11. Algodoal-Maiandeua APA