Corumbá
| Município de Corumbá Corumbá |
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 Aerial view of the center and the Paraguay River
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| Coordinates | 19 ° 1 ′ S , 57 ° 39 ′ W | ||
 Location of Corumbá in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul
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| founding | 1778 | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Mato Grosso do Sul | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-MS | ||
| height | 118 m | ||
| climate | Aw, tropical | ||
| surface | 64,962.9 km² | ||
| Residents | 103,772 (2010) | ||
| density | 1.6 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 110,806 (last: July 1, 2018) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 5003207 | ||
| Website | www.corumba.ms.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Marcelo Iunes (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB) | ||
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| Patron saint | Our Lady of Light | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 2,733,152 thousand R $ 25,154 R $ per capita (2015) |
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| HDI | 0.700 (2010) | ||
Corumbá , officially Município de Corumbá , is a city in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul . It is also officially known as Capital do Pantanal (Capital of the Pantanal ) and Cidade Branca (White City).
Corumbá is 425 km northwest of the capital Campo Grande on the border with Bolivia and about 100 km from the Paraguayan border. It was founded in 1778 as a military outpost and its location on the Paraguay River gave it strategic importance in international trade after the Triple Alliance War (1865–70). Around 111,000 people live in Corumbá (2018).
The name of the city comes from the language of the Tupi - Guarani peoples, which means something like "the remote place" of the "pebble bank". Corumbá is known as the white city because of the light color of the soil, which is rich in limestone. The occupation and exploration of the region began as early as the sixteenth century when the Portuguese arrived here in anticipation of finding gold .
Today the city is an important exit gate for tourists to the Pantanal nature reserve. Industrial development began in the 1940s with the exploration of white limestone for the cement industry . Corumbá on the Rio Paraguay has one of the most important inland ports in Brazil.
Population development
Corumbá consists of two districts. The lower part is the old town near the port with buildings worth seeing. The higher and newer part is much larger and laid out like a chessboard.
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| 1970 | 48,600 |
| 1980 | 67,500 |
| 1991 | 88,360 |
| 1993 | 89,585 |
| 1996 | 89,083 |
| 2000 | 95,700 |
| 2004 | 99,441 |
| 2005 | 100,268 |
| 2006 | 101,089 |
| 2010 | 103,772 |
| 2018 | 110,806 |
Location views
City entrance
Historic buildings at the old river port
Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senora da Candelária
Historic police building
Corumbá port
Diocese of Corumbá
Sons and daughters
- Osvaldo Velloso de Barros (1908–1996), football goalkeeper, Brazilian national player
- Wega Nery (1912–2007), Brazilian painter
- Diego Jara Rodrigues (* 1995), Brazilian soccer player
- Edmilson Tadeu Canavarros dos Santos (* 1967), Brazilian clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Manaus
- Mário Calábria , Brazilian diplomat
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitua Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBGE : Corumbá - Panorama . In: gov.br. Retrieved September 29, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ IBGE : Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2018. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. 2018, accessed September 29, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Corumbá. In: gov.br. Prefeitura de Corumbá, accessed April 25, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
