Parintins

Parintins is a municipality In the a ways east of the Amazonas nation, Brazil. It is part of a microregion also named Parintins. The populace for the entire municipality changed into 109,150, 2005 and its area is 5,952 km². The metropolis is located on Tupinambarana island inside the Amazon River. Parintins is understood for a popular folklore festival held there every June referred to as Boi-Bumba. It additionally become the site of an experimental deployment of WIMAX, backed by way of Intel, in past due 2006.

Parintins, like nearly all other Brazilian municipalities, became originally inhabited by way of indigenous peoples. His discovery took place in 1749 when taking place the Amazon River, the exploiter Jose Goncalves da Fonseca, observed an island which, by extension excelled located at the proper bank of the big river Amazon. The basis of the city was simplest held in 1796, through Jose Pedro Cordovil, who came with his slaves and aggregates to pay attention on fishing arapaima and agriculture, calling the Tupinambarana.

Queen Maria First gave him the island as a present. Fixed, he founded a cocoa tree farm, committed to the farming of that product on a huge scale. To get out of there, a while later, presented the island to the queen. Tupinambarana become standard and multiplied to the religious undertaking, in 1803, by way of Captain-mor of Para, the Count of Arcos, who has directed venture of the Friar Jose das Chagas, receiving the title of Vila Nova da Rainha. Efficient performance of Jose provoked a surge of development and development inside the town, by means of the employer of the area of the top Amazon.