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Parauapebas

Parauapebas is a city in . 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.
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Parauapebas

Latitude
-6.0697° or 6° 4′ 11″ south
Longitude
-49.8903° or 49° 53′ 25″ west
Population
268,000
Elevation
169 metres (554 feet)
IATA airport code
CKS
United Nations Location Code
BR PRS
Open location code
685GW4J5+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2090500826
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6317872
Wiki­data ID
Q1806100
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Parauapebas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باراوابيباس”
  • Basque: “Parauapebas”
  • Bengali: “পারাউয়াপেবাস”
  • Bishnupriya: “পারাৱাপেবাস”
  • Bulgarian: “Парауапебас”
  • Catalan: “Parauapebas”
  • Cebuano: “Parauapebas”
  • Chechen: “Парауапебас”
  • Chinese: “Parauapebas”
  • Chinese: “帕劳阿佩巴斯”
  • Chinese: “帕勞阿佩巴斯”
  • Danish: “Parauapebas”
  • Dutch: “Parauapebas”
  • Esperanto: “Parauapebas”
  • Finnish: “Parauapebas”
  • French: “Parauapebas”
  • German: “Parauapebas”
  • Greek: “Παροαπέμπας”
  • Gujarati: “પેરૌપેબાસ”
  • Hindi: “परौआपेबॉस”
  • Hungarian: “Parauapebas”
  • Indonesian: “Parauapebas”
  • Irish: “Parauapebas”
  • Italian: “Parauapebas”
  • Japanese: “パラウアペバス”
  • Kannada: “ಪರೌಪೇಬಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Parawapebas”
  • Kazakh: “Парауапебас”
  • Kazakh: “پاراۋاپەباس”
  • Korean: “파라우아페바스”
  • Latvian: “Parauapeba”
  • Lithuanian: “Paravuapebasas”
  • Malagasy: “Parauapebas”
  • Malay: “Parauapebas”
  • Marathi: “परोपेबास”
  • Mazanderani: “پارائوپباس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Parauapebas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parauapebas”
  • Norwegian: “Parauapebas”
  • Polish: “Parauapebas”
  • Portuguese: “Parauapebas”
  • Romanian: “Parauapebas”
  • Russian: “Парауапебас”
  • Serbian: “Паравапебас”
  • Sinhala: “පරෞආපෙබාස්”
  • Spanish: “Parauapebas”
  • Swedish: “Parauapebas (kommun i Brasilien)”
  • Swedish: “Parauapebas”
  • Tamil: “ப்ருஅபெபஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Паравапебас”
  • Telugu: “పరవుఆపెబాస్”
  • Thai: “ปาเราอาเปบาส”
  • Turkish: “Parauapebas”
  • Ukrainian: “Парауапебас”
  • Urdu: “پاراواپیباس”
  • Uzbek: “Parauapebas”
  • Venetian: “Parauapebas”
  • Vietnamese: “Parauapebas”
  • Volapük: “Parauapebas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Parauapebas”
  • “Parauapebas”

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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 “Parauapebas”. Photo: Hallel, CC BY-SA 4.0.