Marajó Island (Ilha de Marajó) is located in the north of Pará, approximately 90km from the state capital, Belém. With about three thousand islands and islets, Marajó is the largest fluvial-marine archipelago in the world and an Environmental Protection Area (EPA). The main island occupies an area o

Built in 1616 by the Portuguese to protect a city that had just been founded, the fortification is located on Ponta Maúri, at the confluence of Guaianá River and the Bay of Guajará, marking the entrance to the port and the navigation channel that runs alongside Onças Island in Belém.

Theatro da Paz, located in Belém, Pará’s state capital, is a neoclassical-style building that seeks to achieve what other opera houses do, which is to have perfect acoustics and visibility. I

Augusto Gomes Rodrigues’ nickname, a singer and composer born in 1916, in Quatipuru in Pará’s Bragantina region: Verequete. Mestre Verequete, as he was called, was one of those responsible for the popularisation and dissemination of carimbó, a rhythm and dance from Pará.