Serrano do Maranhão

Serrano do Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.
The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000. The 2022 Brazilian census revealed that the municipality of Serrano do Maranhão had a total population of 10,202 inhabitants, with 58.5% identifying as Black and 55.7% declaring themselves as quilombolas. This makes it the municipality in Brazil with the highest proportion of Black residents.