Jul 21, 2021
Fordlândia is a district and adjacent area of
14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city
of Aveiro, in
the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located
on the east banks of the Tapajós
river roughly 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the
city of Santarém. It
was established by American industrialist Henry
Ford in the Amazon
Rainforest in 1928 as a prefabricated industrial town
intended to be inhabited by 10,000 people to secure a source
of cultivated
rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of
the Ford Motor
Company in the United States.
Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting
him a concession of
10,000 km2 (3,900 sq mi) of land on
the banks of the Rio
Tapajós near the city of Santarém,
Brazil, in exchange for a 9% share in the profits
generated.[2] Ford's
project failed, and the city was abandoned in 1934.
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