Pará
Pará, the second largest state in Brazil by area. It is located in the north of Brazil, and encompasses the mouth of the Amazon River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Belém and Ilha do Marajó.
Belém
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Belém is a city of 1.3 million people near the mouth of the Amazon River in northern Brazil. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station.
Ilha do Marajó
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Ilha do Marajó is an island at the mouth of the Amazon river, just off Belém in Pará. Apparently the world's largest fresh water island, it has a distinct birdlife and also huge water buffalo farms.
Santarém
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Santarém is a city on the southern bank of the Tapajós River, in northern Brazil. It's the second-largest city in Pará, and located just about midway between Manaus and Belém.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Parauapebas and Itaituba.
Parauapebas
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Parauapebas is a city in Pará. This is true frontier country: There was virtually nothing in this region until the world's largest iron ore mine, at neighbouring Serra dos Carajás was set into production in the early 1980s.
Itaituba
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Itaituba is a city and municipality located in the state of Pará, Brazil, and one of the most important socioeconomic centers in the western region of the State.
Salinópolis
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Salinópolis is the prime beach resort in Pará. It packs in June and July, and maintains a certain pace on weekends throughout the year. It was home to about 41,000 permanent residents in 2020.
Belterra
Photo: Tribunal de Justica do Estado do Pará, Public domain.
Belterra is a municipal seat and rubber plantation site some 40 km south of the Brazilian city of Santarém in the Northern federal state of Pará, at the edge of the Planalto at 165 m above sea level.
Fordlândia
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Fordlândia is a small historic town of 3,000 people on the east bank of the Tapajós River in Pará. It was founded by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated rubber for his automobile manufacturing operations.
Capanema
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Capanema is an agricultural town in Pará. Nothing much for tourists here, but you might get stuck on your way to or from Salinópolis.
Amazônia National Park
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Amazônia National Park is in the state of Para of Brazil. The easiest access to the park is from the nearby city of Itaituba.
Ilha do Mosqueiro
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Ilha do Mosqueiro is an island with a string of beaches just outside Belém. The island has 17 km of beaches with freshwater tides, which draw vacationers primarily in the dry season.
Alter do Chão
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Alter do Chão is a beach town and an administrative district of the municipality of Santarém, in the state of Pará, 37 km south of the center of the city via road PA-457, on the right bank of the Tapajós River.
Pará
- Type: federative unit of Brazil with 8,600,000 residents
- Description: state in the North Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “PA”, “Para”, and “Para State”
- Neighbors: Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Roraima, and Tocantins
- Location: North, Brazil, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pará” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pará”
- Albanian: “Pará”
- Arabic: “بارا”
- Arabic: “ولايه بارا”
- Armenian: “Պարա”
- Asturian: “Pará”
- Aymara: “Pará Istadu”
- Azerbaijani: “Para”
- Basque: “Para”
- Basque: “Pará”
- Bavarian: “Pará”
- Belarusian: “Пара (штат)”
- Belarusian: “Пара”
- Belarusian: “штат Пара”
- Belarusian: “Штат Пара”
- Bengali: “প্যাারা”
- Bishnupriya: “পারা”
- Bosnian: “Pará”
- Breton: “Pará”
- Bulgarian: “Пара”
- Burmese: “ပါရာပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Pará”
- Cebuano: “Pará (estado)”
- Cebuano: “Pará”
- Central Kurdish: “پارا”
- Chinese: “Pará”
- Chinese: “帕拉”
- Chinese: “帕拉州”
- Cornish: “Pará”
- Crimean Tatar: “Para (ştat)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Para”
- Croatian: “Para”
- Croatian: “Pará”
- Czech: “Pará”
- Danish: “Pará”
- Dutch: “Pará”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارا”
- Esperanto: “Pará”
- Esperanto: “Parao”
- Estonian: “Para osariik”
- Estonian: “Pará osariik”
- Finnish: “Pará”
- Finnish: “Parán lippu”
- French: “Pará”
- Galician: “Pará”
- Georgian: “პარა”
- German: “Estado do Pará”
- German: “PA”
- German: “Para”
- German: “Pará”
- Greek: “Παρά”
- Guarani: “Para”
- Gujarati: “પારા”
- Hausa: “Pará”
- Hebrew: “פארה”
- Hindi: “पारा”
- Hungarian: “Pará”
- Ido: “Pará”
- Indonesian: “Pará”
- Interlingua: “Pará”
- Irish: “Pará”
- Italian: “PA”
- Italian: “Pará”
- Japanese: “パラー”
- Japanese: “パラー州”
- Japanese: “パラ州”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರಾ”
- Korean: “파라 주”
- Korean: “파라주”
- Ladino: “Pará”
- Latin: “civitas Paraensis”
- Latin: “Civitas Paraensis”
- Latin: “Paraensis”
- Latvian: “Para”
- Limburgan: “Pará”
- Lithuanian: “Para”
- Lithuanian: “Paros valstija”
- Macedonian: “Пара”
- Malagasy: “Pará”
- Malay: “Pará”
- Malayalam: “പാര (ബ്രസീൽ)”
- Malayalam: “പാര”
- Marathi: “पारा”
- Mazanderani: “پارا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pará”
- Mirandese: “Pará”
- Northern Frisian: “Pará”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Para”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pará”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pará”
- Norwegian: “Pará”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pará”
- Ossetian: “Пара”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾ”
- Persian: “پارا”
- Piemontese: “Parà”
- Polish: “Para”
- Polish: “Pará”
- Portuguese: “Estado do Pará”
- Portuguese: “PA”
- Portuguese: “Pará” (historical)
- Quechua: “Pará suyu”
- Romanian: “Para”
- Romanian: “Pará”
- Russian: “Пара (штат)”
- Russian: “Пара”
- Scots: “Pará”
- Serbian: “Пара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Para”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pará”
- Sinhala: “පරා ප්රාන්තය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “පරා”
- Slovak: “Pará”
- Slovenian: “PA”
- Slovenian: “Para”
- Slovenian: “Pará”
- Spanish: “Estado de Para”
- Spanish: “Estado de Pará”
- Spanish: “Para”
- Spanish: “Pará”
- Swahili: “Pará”
- Swedish: “Pará”
- Tajik: “Пара”
- Tamil: “பாரா”
- Tatar: “Пара (штат)”
- Tatar: “Пара”
- Telugu: “పరా”
- Tetum: “Pará”
- Thai: “รัฐปารา”
- Turkish: “BR-PA”
- Turkish: “Estado do Pará”
- Turkish: “PA”
- Turkish: “Pará (eyalet)”
- Turkish: “Pará eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Pará”
- Ukrainian: “Пара”
- Urdu: “پارا”
- Uzbek: “Para”
- Venetian: “Pará”
- Vietnamese: “Pará”
- Volapük: “Pará”
- Waray (Philippines): “Para”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pará”
- Welsh: “Pará”
- Western Panjabi: “پارا”
- Wu Chinese: “帕拉州”
- Yoruba: “Pará”
- Yue Chinese: “帕拉州”
- “BR-PA”
- “ma Pala”
- “ma Pará”
- “PA”
- “Pará”
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