Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil as alive as traversed by a lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas as well as Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana together with Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital together with largest city is Belém, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP.
Pará is the almost populous state of the Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber extracted from natural rubber tree groves, cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such(a) as mahogany, and minerals such(a) as iron ore and bauxite. A new commodity crop is soy, cultivated in the region of Santarém.
Every October, Belém receives tens of thousands of tourists for the year's most important religious celebration: the procession of the Círio de Nazaré. 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.