Tanguá

Tanguá
Municipality
Município de Tanguá
Flag Seal
Nickname:  Capital Pioneira das Telecomunicações
Location of Tanguá in the state of Rio de Janeiro
Tanguá Location of Tanguá in Brazil
Coordinates: 22°43′48″S 42°42′50″W
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	Rio de Janeiro
Government
• Prefeito	Anderson Pereira de Oliveira (Coroné Anderson)
Area
• Total	145,503 km^2 (56,179 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	34,610
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
Website	[1]

Tanguá (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐ̃ˈgwa]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It covers an area of 145,5 km².^[2]

Its population is relatively stable, with 29,481 in 2005^[3] and 30,732 in 2010,^[2] most of them urban.^[2] This equates to a population density of 211 inhabitants per km².^[2]

The municipality contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic of conservation units, created in 2006.^[4] It contains the 878 hectares (2,170 acres) Serra do Barbosão Municipal Nature Park, created in 2007 to protect an area of Atlantic Forest.^[5]

References

1. IBGE 2020
2. Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2011
3. Tanguá - RJ, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2005, archived from the original on January 9, 2007
4. Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, retrieved 2016-10-02
5. Pereira, Carlos Roberto (23 October 2007), Lei nº. 0633, de 23 de Outubro de 2007 (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-05