Demographics
Pará has a high number of immigrant Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese. These people have told their trajectories in a permanent space, the "Room Vicente Salles" of the "Memorial of the People", located in Belém. The Lusitanian were followed by Spaniards who arrived in the capital almost exclusively by political issues, thanks to disputes over the Iberian Peninsula. Then came the Italian explorer and his power at sea. After leaving their contribution to the emergence of the city of Belém, the Japanese established themselves within agrarian, settling in towns such as Tomé-Açu. The majority of the population is mixed, due to the large indigenous gene pool and to a lesser amount, Africa.
According to the IBGE of 2007, there were 7,136,000 people residing in the state. The population density was 5.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (15 /sq mi). Urbanization: 75.2% (2006); Population growth: 2.5% (1991–2000); Houses: 1,754,000 (2006).
The last PNAD (National Research for Sample of Domiciles) census revealed the following numbers: 4,988,000 Brown (Multiracial) people (69.9%), 1,641,000 White people (23.0%), 470,000 Black people (6.6%), 35,000 Asian or Amerindian people (0.5%).
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