Santarém, Pará

Santarém on the map of Pará

Santarém is a city in the north of Brazil, some 700 km west of Belém and has about 270,000 inhabitants.

  • 6.1 Regular events
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Santarém is located on an area of ​​28 058 square kilometers, about midway between Manaus and Belém east to the west in the state of Pará. The Rio Tapajós flows near Santarém in the Amazon. The temperatures throughout the year at 22 to 35 ° C.

History

1659 Portuguese Jesuits settled at the mouth of the Rio Tapajós. As a founding date of the settlement of construction Conceição applies, however, the chapel of Nossa Senhora da on June 22, 1661. As founder applies the Luxembourg Jesuit Father Johann Philipp Bettendorf

Until 1758 the town had the Indian name Tupaiús. Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado was at that time governor of the state of Pará and wanted to transform the Amazon into a new Portugal. The settlements and villages were given Portuguese names.

The older parts of the city with its architecture in the former rubber boom.

Diocese of Santarém (Brazil )

  • Diocese of Santarém (Brazil )

Economy

The economic boom of the city lies in the rich deposits of mineral resources such as bauxite and gold in the wider area.

Today, the inhabitants live mainly from cattle breeding and fishing. Make ceramic products and hammocks made ​​of cotton ago. They act with precious woods, Brazil nuts, pepper, soybean and jute. Trade with rubber still plays a small role in the place.

Traffic

The port of Santarém to be one of the main export ports for soy from the state of Mato Grosso. Due to the currently discussed asphalting the main road from Cuiabá to Santarém transportation costs for soybeans would be significantly reduced. Along the road is due to the asphalting plans a massive land speculation, which leads to the displacement of small farmers by soy producers. It is feared that this development leads to an amplification dynamics of deforestation in the region.

Culture and sights

  • At the confluence of two rivers, the green waters of the Rio Tabajós mixes slowly with the brown Amazon. The waters flow about 6 km along beside each other before they mix, since they have different flow rates and temperatures.
  • Miles of sandy beaches such as Alter do Chao
  • The house of the seven doors of the Barons São Nicolau from Santarem
  • The Praça Mirante do Tapajos
  • The Church of " Nossa Senhora da Conceição "

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Regular events

SAIRE or Caire, an Indian Sage should be used by the Jesuits to to Christianize the native population. Although the church realized that this is not possible, but today SAIRE is one of the biggest festivals of the region.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Sebastião Tapajós Pena Marcião - Guitarist and Composer
  • Silas - Soccer Player
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