Lourenço

Lourenço is a town and district in the Brazilian municipality of Calçoene, in the interior of the state of Amapá.

The main economic activities of the town is gold mining.

[5] This resulted in conflicts with the garimpeiros (illegal gold prospectors).

[5] As of 2014, COOGAL operates five mining concessions and employs 1,100 garimpeiros.

[6] The official census figures for the district are an underestimation, and the actual population is estimated at 4,500 people.

Landslide in a gold mine in Lourenço (2020)