page_title: Pará
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Pará / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Em laranja barragens de rejeito e áreas de extração de bauxita da Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), dentro da Floresta Nacional de Saracá-Taquera. Floresta amazônica em verde escuro. Maior produtora de bauxita do Brasil, a MRN extrai toda a sua produção de 18 milhões de toneladas por ano de bauxita da Flona; criada em 1989 pelo Decreto 98.704, que autoriza a continuidade das atividades minerais, ocorrendo desde 1979. A Norsk Hydro conta com 5 por cento de participação na MRN, mas a empresa tem um acordo de assumir 40 por cento da bauxita da Vale destas operações. A matéria prima é transportada por navio para a Hydro Alunorte, em Barcarena, Pará / In orange Mineração Rio do Norte ( MRN) bauxite mining areas and tailings dams, inside Brazilian Saracá-Taquera National Forest. Amazon tropical rain forest in dark green. Largest Brazilian bauxite producer, MRN mines all its ore production, 18 million tons a year, legally,from this forest. Norsk Hydro owns 5% of MRN, but has an agreement with Vale to get 40% of its bauxite there. Ore goes by boat to Hydro Alunorte, at Barcarena, Pará. bauxita #flona #norskhydro #tailings #alunorte #barcarena #alumínio #aluminum #aluminium #Amazonia #Amazon #bauxite #CBERS4 Imagem / Image CBERS4 MUX Mineração e depósito de rejeitos de bauxita na Flona Saracá-Taquera no Pará Coordenadas do centro da imagem / Image center: 1°40'52.9"S 56°24'57.5"W Data / Date: 07-08-2018 / 2018-07-08 RGB 765 (cor verdadeira / true color) Cena / Scene: 170 / 102 Autor / Author: Oton Barros (DSR/OBT/INPE) Imagem em HD / HD Image Visite-nos / Visit us: www.dsr.inpe.br
context_page_description: Pará is a State of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon. The state, which has 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for only 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP.
  Pará is the most populous state of the northern region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, with 1.2 million km², second only to Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber, cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, and minerals such 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.
context_section_description: The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 40.9%, followed by the industrial sector at 36.3%. Agriculture represents 22.8% of GDP (2004). Pará exports iron ore 31.1%, aluminium 22.2%, wood 13.5%, ores of aluminium 8.3%, others ores 7.9% (2002), representing 1.8% of the Brazilian economy (2005).
  The mining sector represents 14% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the state, originated mainly from the extraction of iron, bauxite, manganese, limestone and tin, as well as gold, until recently extracted from one of the largest mines of recent history: Serra Pelada. The economy of Pará is based also on the extraction of vegetation, on agriculture and cattle raising. Thanks to the rich soil and the important hydrographic basin – boats are the main means of transport in the region. Guaraná, a tree from which a powder is produced and used as a stimulant, and annatto seeds, a fruit used for cooking, as a sunscreen and for dye extraction. Marajó – the biggest fluvial-maritime island in the world, with an area of 50,000 km² (19,000 sq mi). Its territory has one of the largest mining areas in the country, in the Carajás Mountains, a mining province where the Ferro Carajás Project is based, from Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. The complex produced 296 million metric tons of iron ore in 2007, exporting the product to many countries, among them Japan, Germany, Italy, France and Spain.
  Pará is the largest producer of cassava, açaí, pineapple and cocoa of Brazil and is among the largest in Brazil in the production of black pepper (2nd place), coconut (3rd place) and banana (6th place). 
  In cassava production, Brazil produced a total of 17.6 million tons in 2018. Pará was the largest producer in the country, with 3.8 million tons. 
  In 2019, Pará produced 95% of açaí in Brazil. The state traded more than 1.2 million tons of the fruit, worth more than US$1.5 billion, about 3% of the state's GDP.
  In 2018, Pará was the largest Brazilian producer of pineapple, with 426 million fruits harvested on almost 19 thousand hectares. In 2017, Brazil was the 3rd largest producer in the world (close to 1.5 billion fruits harvested on approximately 60 thousand hectares). It is the fifth most cultivated fruit in the country. The southeast of Pará has 85% of the state production: the cities of Floresta do Araguaia (76.45%), Conceição do Araguaia (8.42%) and Salvaterra (3.12%) led the ranking this year. Floresta do Araguaia also has the largest concentrated fruit juice industry in Brazil, exporting to European Union, United States and Mercosur.
  Pará is also one of the largest Brazilian producers of coconut. In 2019, it was the 3rd largest producer in the country, with 191.8 million fruits harvested, second only to Bahia and Ceará.
  Pará is the 2nd largest Brazilian producer of black pepper, with 34 thousand tons harvested in 2018.
  The Brazil nut has always been one of the main products of extraction in Northern Brazil, with collection on the forest floor. However, in recent decades, the commercial cultivation of Brazil nut was created. There are already properties with more than 1 million chestnut trees for large-scale production. The annual production averages in Brazil varied between 20 thousand and 40 thousand tons per year in 2016.
  In the production of cocoa, Pará has been competing with Bahia for the leadership of Brazilian production. In 2017 Pará obtained the leadership for the first time. In 2019, people from Pará harvested 135 thousand tons of cocoa, and Bahians harvested 130 thousand tons. Bahia's cocoa area is practically three times larger than that of Pará, but Pará's productivity is practically three times greater. Some factors that explain this are: the crops in Bahia are more extractivist, and those in Pará have a more modern and commercial style, in addition to paraenses using more productive and resistant seeds, and their region providing resistance to Witch's broom.
  In 2018, Pará occupied the 6th national position in the banana production. 
  In 2018, Pará had the 5th largest cattle herd in Brazil, with 20.6 million head of cattle. T
caption: Extraction of bauxite in Pará
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