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Maricá
Maricá
Municipality
	Município de Maricá
	Panoramic view
	Flag Seal
	Location in the Rio de Janeiro state.
Government
• Mayor	Fabiano Horta (2017-2020) (PT)
Area
• Municipality	362 km2 (140 sq mi)
Elevation	6 m (20 ft)
Population (2022)
• Municipality	223,938
• Density	661.3/km2 (1,713/sq mi)
• Metro	1,795,015
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Maricá (Portuguese pronunciation: [maɾiˈka]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

Geography

Maricá is a city of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area, located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and 25 miles away from the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The municipality contains part of the 2,400 hectares (5,900 acres) Serra da Tiririca State Park, created in 1991.^[2]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1990	46,545	—
2000	76,737	+64.9%
2010	127,461	+66.1%
2022	197,277	+54.8%
sources: citypopulation.de and https://ftp.ibge.gov.br/Censos/Censo_Demografico_2022/Previa_da_Populacao/POP2022_Municipios.pdf and https://censo2022.ibge.gov.br/panorama/

Its area is 362,571 km².^[3]

Maricá is administratively divided into 50 bairros (neighborhoods) and 4 distritos (districts).^[4]

Maricá has an airport, the Maricá Airport. Maricá is served by the roads BR-116 and RJ-104.

Maricá has received many royalties from the Brazilian energy company Petrobras, because of the Campos Basin and Santos Basin oil field. ^{[citation needed]}

Climate data for Maricá, Rio de Janeiro (1981–2010)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	31.1 (88.0)	31.6 (88.9)	30.3 (86.5)	28.9 (84.0)	26.8 (80.2)	26.2 (79.2)	25.7 (78.3)	26.0 (78.8)	26.3 (79.3)	27.2 (81.0)	28.5 (83.3)	29.9 (85.8)	28.2 (82.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)	26.5 (79.7)	27.0 (80.6)	25.9 (78.6)	24.2 (75.6)	21.9 (71.4)	20.7 (69.3)	20.5 (68.9)	20.9 (69.6)	21.9 (71.4)	23.0 (73.4)	24.3 (75.7)	25.6 (78.1)	23.5 (74.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	22.4 (72.3)	22.5 (72.5)	21.8 (71.2)	20.3 (68.5)	17.9 (64.2)	16.3 (61.3)	15.8 (60.4)	16.2 (61.2)	17.5 (63.5)	19.1 (66.4)	20.4 (68.7)	21.6 (70.9)	19.3 (66.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	147.4 (5.80)	103.4 (4.07)	134.2 (5.28)	80.5 (3.17)	105.7 (4.16)	78.9 (3.11)	83.8 (3.30)	66.7 (2.63)	88.5 (3.48)	105.9 (4.17)	136.3 (5.37)	146.2 (5.76)	1,277.5 (50.30)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	10	7	9	6	8	6	6	5	8	9	10	10	94
Average relative humidity (%)	79.9	77.2	80.4	82.6	82.3	81.9	80.6	79.5	80.0	81.4	80.8	81.1	80.6
Mean monthly sunshine hours	208.5	221.2	204.8	206.9	184.5	194.0	193.3	200.5	160.6	168.4	166.5	189.2	2,298.4
Source: Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia^[5]

^ [1]
^ Parque Estadual da Serra da Tiririca (in Portuguese), UERJ: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, retrieved 2017-02-07
^ IBGE - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2007-01-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Lei Complementar Nº 207 de 16 de junho de 2010" (PDF). Jornal Oficial de Maricá. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
^ "Normais Climatológicas Do Brasil 1981–2010" (in Portuguese). Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia. Retrieved 21 May 2024.