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Arari

municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1813008 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arari is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.

The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6-hectare (4,386,208-acre) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Arari” as municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arari, municipality and Maranhão.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arari, municipality and Maranhão providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Arari”, the useful work is to connect “municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1813008. Authority coordinates are -3.454, -44.780. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.