Santa Inês is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the North-East region of Brazil.

[2][3][4][5] The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6 hectares (4,386,208 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.

[6] It was emancipated from Pindaré Mirim in 1967.

The city's climate is tropical with a dry season.

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