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IBGE releases in Macapá new eastern border of the Coastal-Marine System in line with the Blue Amazon
August 26, 2024 10h00 AM | Last Updated: August 26, 2024 04h27 PM
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) will release on Tuesday, August 27, at 10 am, the new eastern border of the Brazilian Coastal-Marine System, in line with the Blue Amazon. The launch will take place during a seminar in the Salão Nobre do Palácio do Setentrião, 259 General Rondon Street- Downtown Macapá, capital of Amapá.
The seminar is a joint effort of the IBGE and the Department of Ocean and Coastal Management of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, with support from the TerraMar Project (MMA/GIZ/IKI), the Interministerial Secretariat for Sea Resources (SECIRM) of the Brazilian Navy, the State Secretariat for the Environment of Amapá and local coastal management stakeholders. The Seminar will be broadcast online on the IBGE Digital portal (ibge.gov.br).
The geography aims at addressing the expectations from different sectors of the society interested in a mapping that covers the maritime area under Brazilian jurisdiction, with the use of the Blue Amazon - a region that encompasses the sea surface, water overarching the seabed and marine soil and subsoil contained in the Atlantic extension, projecting from the shore down to the outside border of the Brazilian Continental Platform.
That adjustment represents an increase in area of more than 4 million km2 in relation to the Map of Biomes and Coastal-Marine system of Brazil, compatible with the 1:250 000 scale, published in 2019, and that adopted as the eastern border the extension of the Great Brazilian Marine Ecosystems. However, the continental portion remained unchanged. The continental portion includes costal environments like dunes, mangroves and sandbanks, the first features formed over the marine sediments along the Brazilian shoreline.
The release will make available a technical note with the procedures for developing the layout in the maritime portion, a vector datum in shapefile format and a map in PDF. These products are valuable documents for the representation of a physical-biotic geography of Brazil, contributing to the sustainable management of the marine and coastal biodiversity, from its popularization in the basic education to the support in establishing public policies.
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Event: release of the new eastern border of the Coastal-Marine System, în line with the Blue Amazon.
Date: August 27, 2024
Time: 9 am to 1:30 pm
Venue: Salão Nobre do Palácio do Setentrião, 259 General Rondon Street - Downtown, Macapá - AP
Broadcast: Digital IBGE (ibge.gov.br)
Press confirmation through email comunica@ibge.gov.br
