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Fernando de Noronha (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [feʁˈnɐ̃du dʒi noˈɾoɲɐ]), officially the State District of Fernando de Noronha (Portuguese: Distrito Estadual de Fernando de Noronha) and formerly known as the Territory of Fernando de Noronha (Território de Fernando de Noronha) until 1988, is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, and ...
The Fernando de Noronha Marine National Park was created by federal decree 96.693 on September 14, 1988. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio). [3]
Fernando de Noronha is the biggest island of the archipelago with the same name, located in Brazilian territorial waters, 545 km (339 mi; 294 nmi) away from Recife and 360 km (220 mi; 190 nmi) away from Natal. The first runway was built in 1934.
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Pernambuco (PE), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil.Pernambuco is divided into 184 municipalities (plus the state district of Fernando de Noronha), which are grouped into 19 microregions, which are grouped into 5 mesoregions.
The Fernando de Noronha Islands, 354 km from the mainland, form a "state district" of Pernambuco. Pernambuco comprises a comparatively narrow coastal zone, a high inland plateau, and an intermediate zone formed by the terraces and slopes between the two. [9]
Fernão de Loronha (c. 1470 or earlier – c. 1540), whose name is often corrupted to Fernando de Noronha or Fernando della Rogna, was a prominent 16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon, of Jewish descent.