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Paraiba
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Paraíba 

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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300 million gallons of caustic soda and chlorine were spilled into the Paraiba do Sul and Pomba rivers in southern Brazil, cutting off clean water supplies to over 600,000 people in three states surrounding Rio de Janeiro.
That ain't coffee in Brazil. (South America) by Earth Island Journal
 
 
 
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