Pio XII, Maranhão
Introduction '''Pio XII''' is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. The city gained international notoriety when Otávio Jordão da Silva, a referee at an amateur football match, was beheaded and quartered after he fatally stabbed a player to death.It is named after Pope Pius XII.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.
See also *List of municipalities in Maranhão
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