Carajás Mountains

Carajás Mountains
File:Carajas Mine.jpg
Highest point
Peak	Monte Redenção
Elevation	716 m (2,349 ft)
Coordinates	6°16′37″S 50°34′54″W
Naming
Native name	Serra dos Carajás (Portuguese)
Geography
Country	Brazil
Region	North
Borders on	Carajás Mountains

The Carajás Mountains or Serra dos Carajás are a mountain range to the west of the municipality of Marabá in the Pará state of Brazil. Monte Redenção, Marabá's highest point, is located there. The mountains are contained in the Carajás National Forest, a 411,949 hectares (1,017,950 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.

See also

• Carajás Mine
• S11D

Further reading

• Newton Pereira de Rezende, Carajás: memórias da descoberta, Editora Gráfica Stamppa, 2009, 316 pg. Book in Portuguese telling the history of Carajás' iron mines' discovery.