Corumbá

Port and city in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, on the right bank of the River Paraguay; population (1996) 89,083. The city's industrial enterprises include a metal-works, sawmills, a meat-packing plant, and a blast-furnace.

At Morro do Urucum, 24 km/15 mi to the southeast, there are extensive manganese deposits - estimated as the largest in the world - but the remoteness of the region (it is 1,920 km/1,200 mi by rail to Santos on the east coast, and 3,200 km/1,988 mi down the river to Rosario in Argentina) has hindered their exploitation.

With the construction of the Bolivia-Brazil railway and an influx of new industries, Corumbá became an important trading centre, exporting products from the Brazilian interior and from eastern Bolivia.