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POR320 Summer 2018

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Região Sul (in yellow/amarelo)

Paraná (Simeon Brown)

Today Paraná is a highly developed
state. Named after the Paraná River
which separates Brazil from Paraguay

and Argentina, the province’s excellent
social indicators include the fifth largest
GDP of Brazil and some of the lowest
crime rates in the country. However, the
history and beauty of Paraná are found
in its wildness. The Portuguese briefly
explored the coast, but didn’t push Train ride via Sera Verda Express, Paraná, Brazil
inland or colonize as quickly as other

areas, allowing the indigenous peoples a slightly longer respite from the wave of colonization
experienced by their neighbors. The native tribes local to the Paraná region are the Gê, found
inland inhabiting what is left of South America’s largest auracaria forest, and the Tupi, a tribe
that helped create a significant amount of the modern Brazilian population. Portuguese
explorers capitalized on cunhadismo (from Portuguese cunhado, “brother-in-law”), the tribes’
practice of inviting a man into their community once he’d married a local women. This, coupled

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