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Corumbá| Port and city in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, on the right bank of the River Paraguay; population (2000) 86,100. 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. |
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