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Belterra and mr. Ford / BRAZIL { 24 images } Created 12 Jul 2012

Belterra is a municipal seat and rubber plantation site some 40 km south of the city of Pará.
Belterra was founded as a rubber plantation, after the economic failure of Fordlândia, which had been founded in 1934 by Henry Ford. The intention of the US-Department of Commerce in the 1920s was to produce rubber in Brazil and to import it to USA. The advantage of the Belterra plantation over the plantation of Fordlândia 100 km to the south is the flat topography, which enables the use of machinery. In its peak time in the late 1930s some 50 km² were cultivated with Hevea Brasiliensis (rubber tree).In Belterra, new breeding methods with local varieties were applied, which prevented the leaf disease, a result of the monoculture in Fordlândia. This was very labour-intensive and therefore expensive. Together with the worldwide decline on demand on natural rubber, the plantation was not cost-effective anymore. Ford sold it to the Brazilian government, which is still running the plantation.
Nowadays the planation don't work anymore and Belterra is a quiet place that seems to live of his pasts
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  • On the streets of Belterra
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  • Detail of an historical house of Ford Company era at Belterra
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  • Detail of an historical house of Ford Company era at Belterra
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  • First baptist church builded in Belterra during the Ford Company era
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  • The sporting club of Belterra
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  • City hall of Belterra, historical building of Ford Company era
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  • The sporting club of Belterra
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  • The water reservoir is another historical item (Ford Company era)  of Belterra
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  • Preparing a feast under the clouds on Belterra's main sq.
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  • Historical house of Ford Company era at Belterra
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  • On the streets of Belterra
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  • People from Belterra
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  • Don Renaldo, seringuero.
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  • Seringa tree of Seringa park, nearby Casa de Memoria. Belterra
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  • Don Francisco, seringuero, at home.
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  • Don Francisco working a seringa
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  • The restored workshop of Ford Company still working with the old machines
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  • Old item of Ford Company era along the river Tapajos
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  • Speaker of local radio.
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  • Ocenildo y Monica at work to restore old americans book at casa de Memoria
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  • Another historical building of Ford Company era is nowadays a center of many project for the young people.
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  • People of a cultural association tryng a Carimbo dance at Telecentro de inclusio digital
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  • People of a cultural association tryng a Carimbo dance at Telecentro de inclusio digital
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  • Twilinght on a Belterra hisorical house.
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