Macapá is a Brazilian municipal district, capital of the state of Amapá, in the southeast of the State. The population esteemed in 2005 by the IBGE belonged to 355.408 inhabitants and the area is of 6563 km², what results in a demographic density of 49,75 hab/km².

Its bordering municipal districts are Ferreira Gomes, Cutias and Amapá to north, the Oceano Atlântico to east, Itaubal and the delta of the river Amazonas to southeast, Santana (city with the one which conurba-if) to Southwest and Big Porto to northwest. It is the only capital of to have been Brazilian that it doesn't possess interligação for highway the other capitals.

The end south of the municipal district is cut by the line of Ecuador.

The local population has as official language the Portuguese, but some indigenous languages and the lanc-patuá, Creole language based on French, they are very practiced.

History Macapá the capital of Amapá is located to 345 km of Belém of Pará. The name is of origin tupi, with a macapaba variation, that wants to say place of a lot of bacabas, a fruit of native palm tree of the area. Before having the name of Macapá, the first name granted officially to that earth it was Adelantado of Nueva Andaluzia, in 1544, by Carlos V, the king from Spain of the time, in a concession to Francisco Orellana Spanish navigator that was in the area. The history of Macapá begins in the colonial times, and it is tied up with the defense and the fortification of the borders of Brazil, besides the concern in guaranteeing the man's presence the Brazilian lands. It is this city it appeared like this of a posse military servant in 1738. In the square Veiga Cabral, on February 4, 1758 when he/she still called himself Praça São Sebastião it happened exactly in that square the rising of the pillory and the governor from Grain-Pará, Francisco Xavier of Mendonça Furtado, founded in that day the Villa of São José of Macapá. In that time they went appearing buildings that until today they are preserved, and they constitute true cultural patrimony like Fortaleza of São José of Macapá, a construction done in the times slaves with hand of work of blacks and Indians. On January 2, 1764 the delineamento of the soil began and in June 29 of the same year the fundamental stone of the monument was thrown. The construction delayed 18 years, but that delay was not for the size of the work and yes for the problems that went appearing with the lack of work hand and the material shortage that once in a while did to stop everything. The Indians were pursued by the diseases and oppressed by the rigidity of the military discipline, and this it was the great reason of escape of the mill. The blacks when they fled they didn't go far they let to arrest easily. The death of D. José I, did with that the work almost stopped six years. The author of the project Henrique Galúcio, died five years after the beginning of the works.

Intendência of Macapá, nowadays, is the Historical Museum Joaquim Caetano of Silva. The date of the materialization of this building is of November 15, 1895. The intendente was Coriolano Jucá. The Building was used from the period of Villa to the extinct Federal Territory of Amapá, and the same was built type palace in the neoclassical style, adorned with sculptures and anthropomorphous illustrations that represent the arts and the industry. The piles louvres and vases were made in the art of the falanza in Portugal in 1932. It was recuperated to work the city hall of Macapá tends as interventor of the state of Pará the major Magalhães Barata and as mayor also the major Eliezer Levy.

The Church of São José of Macapá is a historical mark. This church began its construction in 1752, six years before the official creation of the Villa of São José of Macapá. The main church was inaugurated March 5, 1761 being Priest Joaquim Pair the 1st vicar, the original image of the padroeiro São José, sculpted in wood has 35 cm of height, it is still one of the more important sacred relics of the state. In the walls priest Fúlvio's pictures, portray the artistic talent and the beauty of a biblical passage. He/she already had a period in that the parish was without vicar for 40 years. In 1904 priest Francisco Hiller and the intendente colonel Teodoro Mendes recuperated of the church. The first school in alvenaria of Macapá was inaugurated on September 13, 1946, that it is the School of 1st Grau Barão of Rio Branco, created by the government of the Federal Territory of Amapá in captain Janarv Nunes's administration. In this school the 1st movies of Macapá, the also worked former-Cine Territorial. The machines were not used and everything is in the most complete abandonment. Other buildings as the Central Market, the Hospital of Specialties and the Maternidade Mãe Luzia also make part of old constructions of the decades of 40, 50 and 60.

Trapiche Eliezer Levy was for a long time the arrival point and exit of the city. It inspired poets like Alcy Araújo that was called poet of the you drop. Before the trapiche the embarkations contributed in the call Stone of Guindaste, where today the image of São José, the name of the trapiche is placed it is then a homage to the mayor Eliezer Levy that received the interventor's from Pará resources, Magalhães Barata for that construction. In the last reform the trapiche received a concrete structure, where it works a restaurant and a bondinho to transport the visitors. The embarkations contribute in another place. Trapiche Eliezer Levy, with 472 meters in length, is one of the tourist attractions of the city.

The time went passing and the small city went winning face and status of state capital quickly. Buildings with more modern architecture went appearing as the Theater of Bacabeiras, Tribunal of Bills of the State, Legislative Assembly, Tribunal of Justice, Electoral Regional Tribunal, you would Secrete State, Shopping Center and other buildings built swiftly. They settled down new companies, banks, and the number populacional it went increasing with great speed.
Economy A good vocation in Macapá is the trade, with location privileged in relation to its geographical position, he/she has great possibilities of commercial relationships with Central America, North America and Europe. The creation of the Zone of free trade of Macapá was made in December of 1991 and this facilitated the opening of several opportunities and chances of business for the economy of the state. These opportunities are tied up to several economic sections, as the industry, the trade, services and the tourism. It is having investments of another Brazilian states and of foreign capital and a great hard-working market still exists to be explored. But the news of the creation of that commercial area brought some problems for Macapá. It is the case of the growth populacional. Singular natural and tourist resources can do of Macapá, the north gate of connection with the rest of Brazil of the world. With the implantação of the free trade area the imported products are taking the place of the habitual trade, the main stores importadoras locates at the downtown.