Paraná
Paraná is a state in southern Brazil. It's an incredibly culturally rich and diverse state, blending characteristics of the Portuguese, indigenous and African cultures present in most of Brazil, with those of varied immigrant groups such as German, Polish, Syrian-Lebanese and Japanese.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Curitiba and Londrina.
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of Paraná, Brazil. If you're heading for Iguaçu Falls from Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, it's worth stopping by for a day or two.
Londrina
Photo: Carlos Ebert, CC BY 2.0.
Londrina is a large city in Northern Paraná, southern Brazil. It is a wealthy center of a coffee-producing region. It could be a stopover to or from Foz do Iguaçu.
Foz do Iguaçu
Photo: Herr stahlhoefer, Public domain.
Foz do Iguaçu is a major city in the Cascavel region, Brazil. It is a gateway to Paraguay and Argentina, and home of the famous Iguaçu Falls. Together with the cities of Ciudad del Este and Puerto Iguazu, it forms part of one of the largest cultural tourism areas in South America.
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Grande Curitiba
Grande Curitiba is a region of the state of Paraná, in the South of Brazil. In 2015, it was home to 3½ million people.
Superagüi National Park
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Superagüi National Park is a protected natural area on the coast of Paraná in southeastern Brazil. The park is rich in wildlife and is critical habitat for several endangered species, most notably the Superagüi lion tamarin, a kind of small monkey that lives almost nowhere else.
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Paraná
- Type: federative unit of Brazil with 11,600,000 residents
- Description: state in the South Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “Parana”, “Parana State”, and “PR”
- Neighbors: Mato Grosso do Sul, Misiones, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo
- Location: South, Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Paraná” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Paraná”
- Albanian: “Paraná”
- Amharic: “ፓራና”
- Arabic: “بارانا”
- Aragonese: “Paraná”
- Armenian: “Պարանա”
- Asturian: “Paraná”
- Aymara: “Parana Istadu;”
- Aymara: “Parana Istadu”
- Aymara: “Paraná”
- Azerbaijani: “Parana ştatı”
- Basque: “Paraná”
- Belarusian: “Парана”
- Belarusian: “штат Парана”
- Bengali: “পারানা”
- Bishnupriya: “পারানা”
- Bosnian: “Paraná”
- Breton: “Paraná”
- Bulgarian: “Парана”
- Burmese: “ပါရာနာပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “estat de Paraná”
- Catalan: “Estat de Paranà”
- Cebuano: “Paraná (estado)”
- Cebuano: “Paraná”
- Chavacano: “Paraná”
- Chinese: “Paraná”
- Chinese: “巴拉那”
- Chinese: “巴拉那州”
- Cornish: “Paraná”
- Crimean Tatar: “Parana (ştat)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Parana”
- Croatian: “Paraná”
- Czech: “Paraná”
- Dagbani: “Paraná”
- Danish: “Paraná”
- Dutch: “Paraná”
- Esperanto: “Paranao”
- Estonian: “Paraná osariik”
- Finnish: “Paraná”
- French: “Paraná”
- Galician: “Estado do Paraná”
- Georgian: “პარანა”
- German: “Estado do Paraná”
- German: “Paraná”
- German: “PR”
- Greek: “Παρανά”
- Guarani: “Parana”
- Gujarati: “પરાના”
- Hausa: “Parana”
- Hebrew: “פרנה”
- Hindi: “पराना (राज्य)”
- Hindi: “पाराना”
- Hungarian: “Paraná”
- Icelandic: “Paraná”
- Ido: “Paraná”
- Indonesian: “Paraná”
- Interlingua: “Paraná”
- Irish: “Paraná”
- Italian: “Paraná”
- Italian: “PR”
- Japanese: “パラナ州”
- Javanese: “Parana”
- Kannada: “ಪರನಾ”
- Kazakh: “Парана”
- Kirghiz: “Парана”
- Korean: “파라나주”
- Ladino: “Paraná”
- Latin: “civitas Paranensis”
- Latin: “Civitas Paranensis”
- Latin: “Parana”
- Latvian: “Parana”
- Limburgan: “Paraná (staot)”
- Limburgan: “Paraná”
- Lithuanian: “Parana”
- Luxembourgish: “Paraná”
- Macedonian: “Парана”
- Malagasy: “Paraná”
- Malay: “Paraná”
- Malayalam: “പരാന”
- Marathi: “पाराना”
- Mazanderani: “پارانا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paraná”
- Minangkabau: “Paraná”
- Northern Frisian: “Paraná”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paraná”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Paraná”
- Norwegian: “Paraná”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estat del Paraná”
- Oromo: “Parana”
- Ossetian: “Парана”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾਨਾ”
- Papiamento: “Paraná”
- Persian: “پارانا”
- Piemontese: “Paraná”
- Piemontese: “Paranà”
- Polish: “Parana”
- Polish: “Paraná”
- Portuguese: “Estado do Paraná”
- Portuguese: “Paraná”
- Portuguese: “PR”
- Pushto: “پارانا”
- Quechua: “Paraná suyu”
- Quechua: “Paraná”
- Romanian: “Paraná”
- Russian: “Парана”
- Scots: “Paraná”
- Serbian: “Парана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paraná”
- Sinhala: “පරනා ප්රාන්තය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “පරනා”
- Slovak: “Paraná”
- Slovenian: “Paraná”
- Somali: “Parana”
- Spanish: “Estado de Paraná”
- Spanish: “Parana”
- Spanish: “Paraná”
- Swahili: “Paraná”
- Swedish: “Paraná”
- Swiss German: “Paraná”
- Tajik: “Парана”
- Tamil: “பரனா”
- Tamil: “பரானா”
- Tatar: “Парана (штат)”
- Tatar: “Парана”
- Telugu: “పరానా”
- Tetum: “Paraná”
- Thai: “รัฐปารานา”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Paraná”
- Tosk Albanian: “Paraná”
- Turkish: “BR-PR”
- Turkish: “Estado do Paraná”
- Turkish: “Paraná (eyalet)”
- Turkish: “Paraná eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Paraná”
- Turkish: “PR”
- Ukrainian: “Парана”
- Urdu: “پارانا”
- Uzbek: “Parana”
- Venetian: “Paraná”
- Vietnamese: “Paraná”
- Volapük: “Paraná”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paraná”
- Welsh: “Paraná”
- Western Panjabi: “پارانا”
- Wu Chinese: “巴拉那州”
- Yiddish: “פאראנא”
- Yoruba: “Paraná”
- Yue Chinese: “巴拉那州”
- “BR-PR”
- “ma Palana”
- “ma Paraná”
- “Paraná”
- “PR”
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