Barcarena

Barcarena is a Brazilian municipality in the nation of Para adjoining the Tocantins River. It has a population of 102,0.5 and is a part of the Belem metropolitan region. The metropolis's economic system is based largely on agriculture and bauxite. There are also centers for pig iron close by. They town and port is developing as a primary transshipping port that takes items for global export connected by rail from close by inland ports, from throughout Brazil, dashing up shipment and reducing time and expenses as hostile to conventional megaports within the Southeast.

The metropolis turned into in the beginning inhabited by way of the Arua Indians. On October 6, 2015 the livestock vessel "MV Haidar" capsized inside the Vila do Conde port due to an unsuccessful turning maneuver. It had 4,900 stay cattle and nearly seven hundred metric tonnes of oil on board. 4,400 farm animals drowned at the same time as locked within the deliver's cargo location. About 500 animals may want to unfastened themselves, but most effective approximately a hundred survived the coincidence.