Fordlândia

Also known as Fordlandia

Fordlândia is a district and adjacent area of in the city of Aveiro, Pará, Brazil. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly south of the city of Santarém.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Fordlândia
Settlement.native_name_lang: pt
Settlement.settlement_type: District
Settlement.image_skyline: Fordlandia.JPG
Settlement.image_alt: A water tower and the ruins of a large warehouse building
Settlement.image_caption: The Fordlândia water tower (left) and the ruins of Ford's rubber plantation (right)
Settlement.etymology: Namesake of American industrialist Henry Ford
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: 1928
Settlement.mapframe: yes
Settlement.pushpin_map: Pará#Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption

Article

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Contents

History
Ford Motor Company Plantation
Decline
Revolts
Failure
Ministry of Agriculture
Rebirth
Facilities
Water tower
Hospital
Sawmill
Workshop
American Village
In nonfiction and documentary works
Influence on culture
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

Fordlândia is a district and adjacent area of in the city of Aveiro, Pará, Brazil. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly south of the city of Santarém.

It was established by American industrialist Henry Ford in the Amazon rainforest in 1928 as a prefabricated industrial town intended to be inhabited by 10,000 people to secure a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting him a concession of of land on the banks of the Rio Tapajós near the city of Santarém, Pará, Brazil, in exchange for a 9% share in the profits generated. Ford's project failed, and the city was abandoned in 1934.