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Paraty

Brazil · Rio de Janeiro

Paraty is a Brazilian municipality on the southern coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is 258 kilometres from the state capital, the city of Rio de Janeiro. Alongside the Atlantic Ocean, the municipal area has an average altitude of just five metres above sea level. It covers 924.295 square kilometres and has an estimated population of 47,668, giving a population density of 48.95 inhabitants per square kilometre. According to an estimate by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) from 2014, it ranks 43rd among the municipalities of the state of Rio de Janeiro by popu…