Soure

About Soure

Ilha do Marajó is an island at the mouth of the Amazon river, just off Belém in Pará. Apparently the world's largest fresh water island (some 40,000 km², an area larger than that of Switzerland), it has a distinct birdlife and also huge water buffalo farms. It is bathed by the Amazon, Pará and Tocantins rivers and by the Atlantic Ocean. Marajó was once the center of a large and sophisticated indigenous civilization. Its main cities are Soure, considered the "capital", and Salvaterra.