Para

Para lies west of the Araguaia, among the grasslands and woods around the Pau d'Arco. Karajá communities lived along the great river, while Kayapó groups occupied country farther inland; the Kradaú were recorded in the fields between the Araguaia and the forest towards the Xingu. In 1780 the Portuguese captain-general Fernando Delgado established a fort upstream of the later settlement of Conceição do Araguaia.