Soure (Pará)
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Coordinates: 0 ° 43 ′ S , 48 ° 31 ′ W Soure on the map of Pará
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| Country | Brazil | |
| State | Pará | |
| City foundation | 1847 | |
| Residents | 23.001 (IBGE / 2010) | |
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| surface | 3,512,863 | |
| Population density | 6.2 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| height | 10 m | |
| prefix | (+55) 091 | |
| Time zone | UTC −3 | |
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Soure is a city in the Brazilian state of Pará and on the Marajó Island, which lies in the delta of the Amazon . According to official estimates, the municipality had 25,374 inhabitants in 2019.
Soure is known to tourists for its buffalo farms and bays.
history
Presumably there was a settlement of the Muruanazi , a Brazilian Indian tribe , where missionaries settled. In the 18th century it was a separate municipality with the name Menino Deus . In 1757 Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado became governor of Pará and pursued a policy of approximating local communities to Portugal, in particular by assigning Portuguese place names to localities in Pará (such as Santarém , Óbidos and many more). He strove to create separate circles in the interior of the country, and made the place the seat of a separate circle, after it was renamed Soure. In 1833 the village was given up and the district dissolved.
In 1847 the place was re-established. He remained a village in the Monsarás district until it was again the seat of an independent district ( Município ) in 1859 . After the end of the empire of Brazil and the proclamation of the republic, Soure was elevated to a city ( Cidade ) in 1890 .
Place name
The name goes back to the small Portuguese town of Soure . This in turn goes back to the place name from the time of the Romans , who called the place Saurium .
sons and daughters of the town
- Dener Pamplona de Abreu (1937–1978), fashion designer
- Iuri Alcântara (* 1980), martial artist in mixed martial arts
Web links
- Official website of the city administration
- IBGE : Cidades @ Pará: Soure. Retrieved August 29, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the village of Soure ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (port.), from the city council's website, accessed December 20, 2014
