Belém (bra)

Belém

Belém ranks 1,360th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Corpus Christi, Texas, Chur, and La Chaux-de-Fonds. Memorable people born in Belém include Sócrates, Hélio Gracie, and Giovanni Silva de Oliveira. Memorable people who died in Belém include Antônio Carlos Gomes, Pedro Teixeira, and Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona. Belém has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many composers, and military personnels. Belém is located in Brazil.

Belém, often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the north of Brazil. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station. Belém lies approximately 100 km upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Pará River, which is part of the greater Amazon River system, separated from the larger part of the Amazon delta by Ilha de Marajó. With an estimated population of 1,303,403 people — or 2,491,052, considering its metropolitan area — it is the 12th most populous city in Brazil, as well as the 16th by economic relevance. It is the second largest in the North Region, second only to Manaus, in the state of Amazonas. Read more on Wikipedia