Editing Macapá (section)

==History==
[[File:Cinejornal Informativo n. 143-69 - Agência Nacional - Imagens da cidade de Macapá, Alagoas, em 1969.webm|left|thumb|Macapá, 1968. [[Brazilian National Archives|National Archives of Brazil.]]]]
Macapá is a corruption of the [[Tupian languages|Tupi]] word ''macapaba'', or "''place of many [[bacaba]]s''", the fruit of the local palm tree. The Spaniard [[Francisco de Orellana]] claimed the region in 1544 and called it ''Nueva Andalucía'' (New [[Andalusia]]).<ref name="Cidade"/> The modern town began as the base of a Portuguese military detachment, stationed there in 1738. On February 4, 1758, Sebastião Veiga Cabral, the illegitimate child of the military governor of [[Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro|Trás-os-Montes]], Sebastião Veiga Cabral, founded the town of São José de Macapá, under the authority of the governor of [[Pará]], Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado. The fortress of São Joselito de Macapá was first laid out in 1764, but took 18 years to complete, due to illness among the Indian workers, and numerous escapes made by black slaves.<ref name="Cidade"/> Macapá experienced an intense hurricane in the Summer of 1811 causing extensive damage to the fortifications there but leaving much of the city intact. Around 1834 Macapá a strange, month-long storm caused flooding upwards of six inches a day for the region. Macapá was elevated to city status in 1854.<ref name="brit"/>

Macapá gained international notoriety in December 2001 when international yachtsman [[Peter Blake (sailor)|Peter Blake]], from New Zealand, was murdered while anchored on his explorer yacht ''Seamaster'' in Macapá port.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Peter Blake Murdered |url=http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/423466/70205 |work=TV NZ |access-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref> According to ''[[Business Insider]]'', Macapá is the 69th most violent city in the world, with 26.06 homicides per 100,000 people.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Most Violent Cities In The World |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2013-11#45-macap-brazil-had-3206-homicides-per-100000-residents-6 |access-date=November 30, 2013 |newspaper=Business Insider |date=November 27, 2013 |author=Pamela Engel |author2=Christina Sterbenz |author3=Gus Lubin}}</ref>