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Paraiba

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a state in northeastern Brazil, mainly in the Brazilian Highlands. Area, 56,400 sq km. Population, 2.4 million (1970). Its capital is the city of João Pessoa. The state’s economy is based on agriculture. Cultivated crops include corn, rice, beans, sugarcane, tobacco, bananas, cotton, and one-third of the country’s sisal. Industries include the production of food and condiments, cotton ginning, cement production, and leather tanning.



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Paraiba Valley, Brazil The Paraiba Valley's fazendas, or plantation bungalows, were built with the fortunes which coffee barons amassed in the 19th century.
Independent tests at Brazil's Vale do Paraiba University found eight out of 10 women who wore the pants for six hours a day over a month saw their cellulite reduced.
Born in the relatively poor state of Paraiba in Brazil, Furtado confronted the economic backwardness of Latin America in general, and Brazil in particular, after joining the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 1949.
 
 
 
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