Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the Marajó bay, near the estuary of the Amazon river. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP.
Pará | |
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| Estado do Pará State of Pará | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
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| Anthem: Hino do Pará | |
Location of State of Pará in Brazil | |
| Coordinates: 5°40′S 52°44′W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Founded | March 24, 1928 |
| Capital and largest city | Belém |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Helder Barbalho(MDB) |
| • Vice Governor | Hana Ghassan (MDB) |
| • Senators | Beto Faro (PT) Jader Barbalho (MDB) Zequinha Marinho (PODE) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,247,689.5 km2 (481,735.6 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 2nd |
| Highest elevation (Serra do Buriti) | 748 m (2,454 ft) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 7,581,051 |
| • Estimate (2019) | 8,602,865 |
| • Rank | 9th |
| • Density | 6.1/km2 (16/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 21st |
| Demonym | Paraense |
| GDP | |
| • Total | R$ 262.905 billion (US$ 48.8 billion) |
| HDI | |
| • Year | 2021 |
| • Category | 0.690 – medium (23rd) |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
| Postal Code | 66000-000 to 68890-000 |
| ISO 3166 code | BR-PA |
| Website | www |
Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at 1.2 million square kilometres (460,000 sq mi), second only to Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber (extracted from rubber tree groves), cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, and minerals such as iron ore and bauxite. A new commodity crop is soy, cultivated in the region of Santarém.
Every October, Belém receives tens of thousands of tourists for the year's most important religious celebration: the procession of the Círio de Nazaré. Another important attraction of the capital is the Marajó-style ceramics, based on the vanished Marajoara culture, which developed on that very large island in the Amazon River.