Gurupa

Gurupa or Santo Antonio de Gurupa is a municipality at the Amazon River in state of Para, northern Brazil located close to the world's largest river island, Marajo, 300 km upstream from the upper mouth of the river on the Atlantic coast. The metropolis is a center for palm heart extraction and trade. It is a municipal seat and important river boat port. Gurupa is derived from an indigenous language phrase or sound for the warble of a P.C.-pau chook, a species of woodpecker. Gurupa changed into based in 1609 as a Dutch buying and selling put up that they known as Mariocai, after the indigenous peoples dwelling there.

It turned into the 0.33 of three buying and selling posts installed by using the Dutch alongside the decrease reaches of the Amazon and Xingu Rivers. The Dutch traded for dye, timber and mother-of-pearl. They additionally cultivated sugarcane alongside the Xingu river, to the south of Gurupa. It changed into ultimately conquered and occupied by way of the Portuguese in 1623, wherein they built the fortress of Santo Antonio de Gurupa. It have become the royal captaincy of Gurupa in 1633 in recognition of its strategic navy and trading position. It became absorbed into Grao-Para in 1756.