![]() Typical American houses were built, as were a hospital, school, library, and hotel. The site was developed as a planned community with different areas of the city being designated for the Brazilian workers and the American managers, who lived in the so-called American Village. ![]() No roads were available in the area thus the area was only accessible by the Tapajós River. It was immediately hindered by poor logistics and diseases that affected the workers who succumbed to yellow fever and malaria. Work on the area began in 1926 by the Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil. The agreement exempted Ford from taxes on the exportation of goods produced in Brazil in exchange for 9% of the profits, 7% going to the Brazilian government and 2% of profits to local municipalities. An agreement was signed and the American industrialist received an area of about 2.5 million acres (10,100 km 2) called "Boa Vista". Negotiations with the Brazilian government started during the visit by then-governor of the State of Pará, Dionísio Bentes, to the United States to meet Ford. Central America was considered however, information about the rubber trees in the Amazon was uncovered and this, along with other factors, caused a change of plans. Henry Ford looked for alternatives and a permanent place to establish a colony to produce rubber. In the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company sought to elude the British monopoly over the supply of rubber, mainly used for producing tires and other car parts. The town was mostly deserted, with only 90 residents still living in the city until the early 2000s when it saw an increase of population, being home to around 3,000 people as of 2017. Ford's project failed, and the city was abandoned in 1934. Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting him a concession of 10,000 km 2 (3,900 sq mi) of land on the banks of the Rio Tapajós near the city of Santarém, Brazil, in exchange for a 9% share in the profits generated. 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. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the city of Santarém. Fordlândia ( Portuguese pronunciation:, Ford-land) is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro, in the Brazilian state of Pará.
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