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Fordlândia

Fordlândia is a small historic town of 3,000 people on the east bank of the Tapajós River in . It was founded by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated rubber for his automobile manufacturing operations.
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  • Type: Village with 1,180 residents
  • Description: district in Brazil, established by Henry Ford
  • Also known as: “Fordlandia” and “Vila Fordlândia”

Fordlândia

Latitude
-3.8315° or 3° 49′ 54″ south
Longitude
-55.4978° or 55° 29′ 52″ west
Population
1,180
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
68865G92+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 416652628
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3399482
Wiki­data ID
Q1437077
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Fordlândia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فوردلانديا”
  • Basque: “Fordlândia”
  • Chinese: “福特蘭地”
  • Czech: “Fordlândia”
  • Dutch: “Fordlândia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فوردلانديا”
  • Esperanto: “Fordlândia”
  • Finnish: “Fordlandia”
  • Finnish: “Fordlândia”
  • French: “Fordlandia”
  • French: “Fordlândia”
  • German: “Fordlandia”
  • German: “Fordlândia”
  • Hebrew: “פורדלנדיה”
  • Indonesian: “Fordlândia”
  • Italian: “Fordlandia”
  • Italian: “Fordlândia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fordlândia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fordlândia”
  • Norwegian: “Fordlândia”
  • Polish: “Fordlandia”
  • Portuguese: “Fordlândia”
  • Russian: “Фордландия”
  • Spanish: “Fordlandia”
  • Swedish: “Fordlândia”
  • Yue Chinese: “福特蘭地”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fordlândia”. Photo: Méduse, CC BY-SA 3.0.