Bequimão

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Bequimão

Total population

19,584

Elevation12 m

Land area768.96 km²

Coordinates-2.45°, -44.79°

Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

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

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Maranhão

• Peri Mirim
  9.9 mi away · pop. 11,108
• Oitiua
  9.9 mi away
• Bacurituba
  18.2 mi away · pop. 5,252
• Turilândia
  39 mi away · pop. 31,638
• Presidente Sarney
  40.8 mi away · pop. 17,511
• Porto Rico do Maranhão
  43.1 mi away · pop. 5,954
• Três Furos
  45.8 mi away
• Raposa
  46.8 mi away · pop. 30,839
• Porto das Gabarras
  48.1 mi away
• Madragoa
  50.9 mi away
• Icatu
  54.8 mi away · pop. 24,794
• Trajano Marques
  58.3 mi away

Browse all places in Maranhão →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Bequimão

A revolta de Bequimão

Milson Coutinho · 1984

O bequimão

Clodoaldo Freitas · 2001

Quilombos de Bequimão

2022

Bequimão

Francisco Gaudencio Sabbas da Costa · 1866

A Revolta de Bequimao

MILSON COUTINHO · 2004

"Aê meu pai Quilombo, eu também sou Quilombola"

Daisy Damasceno Araújo · 2019

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Corydalus batesii

Corydalus batesii

Seen 2026-03-17

Giant Jawed Sawyer

Macrodontia cervicornis

Seen 2026-03-10

Elegant Zinnia

Zinnia elegans

Seen 2023-03-29

Lipsticktree

Bixa orellana

Seen 2023-02-09

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers