-------------------+---------+-----------+----------------+-----------+---------- | AREA, | | | | STATES |in square| POPULATION| CAPITALS | POPULATION| ALTITUDE, | miles | | | | in feet -------------------+---------+-----------+----------------+-----------+---------- Amazonas | 645,940 | 435,000 | Manaos | 60,000 | 131 Pará | 399,000 | 992,300 | Belem | 250,000 | 23 Maranhão | 150,830 | 853,000 | Maranhão | 40,000 | 198 Piauhy | 89,850 | 548,250 | Therezina | 35,000 | Ceará | 62,160 | 1,436,300 | Fortaleza | 65,000 | Rio Grande do Norte| 15,925 | 552,000 | Natal | 20,000 | 25 Parahyba | 22,548 | 785,100 | Parahyba | 20,000 | Pernambuco | 38,570 | 1,975,440 | Recife | 200,000 | Alagôas | 10,400 | 990,000 | Maceió | 40,000 | Sergipe | 8,983 | 535,000 | Aracajú | 30,000 | Bahia | 206,990 | 3,373,000 | São Salvador | 300,000 | 147 Espirito Santo | 16,860 | 479,200 | Victoria | 20,000 | Rio de Janeiro | 16,408 | 1,502,000 | Nictheroy | 30,000 | São Paulo | 101,890 | 4,823,000 | São Paulo | 510,000 | 2,510 Paraná | 73,465 | 674,300 | Curityba | 50,000 | 2,980 Santa Catharina | 43,168 | 633,000 | Florianopolis | 30,000 | Rio Grande do Sul | 92,350 | 2,138,800 | Porto Alegre | 125,000 | Minas Geraes | 227,238 | 5,789,000 | Bello Horizonte| 35,000 | 3,081 Goyaz | 284,000 | 529,000 | Goyaz | 18,000 | 1,577 Matto Grosso | 554,400 | 274,100 | Cuyabá | 32,000 | 953 Territory of Acre | 67,712 | 104,000 | | | Federal District | 450 | 1,150,080 | Rio de Janeiro | 1,150,080 | -------------------+---------+-----------+----------------+-----------+---------- POPULATION The population, by the recent census 30,553,509, is of a more varied character than that of Uruguay and Argentina at the south. Some figures given are 52 per cent white, 26 mixed, 13 Indian, and 9 per cent negro. The original settlers were Portuguese, and at first immigration was from the mother country. In the early days many negroes were imported from Africa as slaves, yet there was little color prejudice so that the number of mulattoes and lighter as well as of negroes in some sections is very large.