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The building was the first of the model on Amazon and the most significant in the Amazon territory until 1660. The region of the Amazon valley, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), was in possession of the Spanish Crown, the Portuguese expeditionaries, with the purpose of consolidating the region as Portuguese territory, founded the Fort of the Nativity ( Forte do Presépio) in 1616, in Santa Maria de Belém do Grão-Pará (Saint Mary of Bethlehem of the Great Pará). See also: State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão On 28 October 1637, the Portuguese Pedro Teixeira left Belem and went to Quito: during the expedition, he placed a landmark in the confluence of the Napo and Aguarico, in the current border between Ecuador and Peru, to Portugal, and later to Brazil, getting the possession of most of the Amazon, including all of the current territory of Pará. On 26 August 1542, the Spaniard Francisco de Orellana reached the mouth of the Amazon River, waterway by river from Quito, Ecuador. In 1500, the Spanish navigator Vicente Yañez Pinzón was the first European to navigate the mouth of the Amazon River. The state was named after the river of the same name, the Pará River, one of the tributaries of the Amazon River. The state's name is a toponym of the Tupi word pará – literally " sea", but sometimes used to refer to large rivers.
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Another important attraction of the capital is the Marajó-style ceramics, based on the extinct Marajoara culture, which developed on an island in the Amazon River. A new commodity crop is soy, cultivated in the region of Santarém.Įvery October, Belém receives tens of thousands of tourists for the year's most important religious celebration: the procession of the Círio de Nazaré. Pará produces rubber (extracted from natural rubber tree groves), cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, and minerals such as iron ore and bauxite. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at 1.2 million square kilometres (460,000 sq mi), second only to Amazonas upriver. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. Pará is a State of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River.