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Anapu

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Anapu is a city in Pará, Brazil. It is located at 03°28′20″S 51°11′52″W / 3.47222°S 51.19778°W / -3.47222; -51.19778.

Its population in 2004 was 7,271 inhabitants. The territorial area of Anapu is 11951.79 km2. Anapu's rain forests subject to massive clearcutting.

Anapu attracted international attention on February 12, 2005, when the American-born, naturalized Brazilian citizen Sister Dorothy Stang—member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and advocate for the rural poor of the Amazon Rainforest—was murdered there.

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