Marajó

The Beach of the Pesqueiro

Marajó is an inhabited island, located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. With a land area of 40 100 km² (15,500 sq mi, see list of islands by size), it is the largest island to be completely surrounded by freshwater. Although its northeast coastline faces the Atlantic Ocean, the outflow from the Amazon is so great that the sea at the mouth is quite unbriny for some distance from shore. The city of Belém lies to the south, across the southern fork (called also the Pará River) of the river's mouth.

In the 1918–1919 outbreak of the Spanish influenza, Marajó was the only major populated area not to have documented any cases of the illness.

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