Belém do Pará is a busy port and capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located close to the Amazon river's delta, becoming its main entrance gate. Sugar trade, cattle ranching, coffee and rubber plantations caused the region importance to alternately rise and fell. Today, the main income is obtained from aluminum, iron and other minerals, nuts, pineapples and other tropical fruits as well as hardwoods.
Belém is not one of Brazil's World Cup cities and most inhabitants of Belém are happy about this.
One of Belém icons is the Theater built during the booming rubber years around 1890.
The access to the church is covered like in good hotels. Cars drive under this roof to let people on/off without getting wet in case of rain.
The old harbor has being remodeled and the storage areas were converted into food courts with a number of restaurants, bars, coffee and ice cream shops.
The old harbor is durty and polluted.
Vultures are quite common in Belém, specially close to the oldest part of the harbor and market. What I didn't expect to see is somebody feeding them just as we see people feeding pigeons in other cities.
I think I will never get used to see vultures as part of a city's fauna.
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