Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Ananindeua is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Pará, located in the Belém Metropolitan Region. It is the second most populous municipality in the state and the third in Brazil's North Region, surpassed only by the state capitals Manaus and Belém. It is conurbated with Belém and Marituba, both municipalities of the same metropolitan region. Its population was counted at 509,227 inhabitants according to IBGE estimates for 2025.
Originating from riverside communities, the municipality's initial growth took place along the axis of the former Estrada de Ferro de Bragança. Its greatest population increase came with the construction of BR-010 (Belém-Brasília) in the 1960s, when industries located in Belém began to settle along this highway. Initially it was considered a “dormitory town”, but it experienced considerable development from the 1980s onward, owing to the lack of space in Belém for new housing and businesses.
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