Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Central-West
- State
- Mato Grosso
- Total
- 19,453
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- chapadense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Mato Grosso
- Population
- 12888
- Area
- 6206.573
- Elevation
- 325
- Shares border with
- Santo Antônio de Leverger
- Official website
- www.chapadadosguimaraes.mt.gov.br
- Image
- Flávio André Vista aérea da cidade Chapada dos Guimarães MT (40952210912).jpg
- Dialing code
- 65
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- Commons category
- Chapada dos Guimarães
- Human Development Index
- 0.801
- electorate
- 16189
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Encyclopedic overview
Chapada dos Guimarães is a municipality located in central Brazil, 62 km from the city of Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso State. It is home to the Chapada dos Guimarães National Park. Outside this town is the geographic center of South America.
The municipality contains 77% of the 3,534-hectare (8,730-acre) Rio da Casca Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1994. The municipal seat contains the 31 hectares (77 acres) Quineira State Park, created in 2006.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chapada dos Guimarães” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.