Place details
Place namePará
Other namesPará, Estado do
CountryBrasil
Latitude-4
Longitude-53
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Nation's third largest state; landscape dominated by outlet of Amazon Basin & Guiana Highlands; occupied by Spainish & Portuguese from 17th-early 20th cen.; grew raidly during rubber boom of 19th cen.; still populated by remote tribes of Amerindians.