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'Marajó' is an island located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. It is part of the state of Pará. With a land area of 47 573 km² (18,368 sq mi, see List of islands by area), it is the largest island to be completely surrounded by freshwater in the world. 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 (also called the Pará River) of the river's mouth. The island sits almost directly on the equator.
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. The island was the site of an advanced pre-Columbian society, the Marajoara culture.

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★ Marajó Island tourism