Corumbá

Corumbá is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the Central-West region of Brazil. Its name is said to mean gravel bank in the Tupi-Guarani language. The 2022 census counted 96,268 inhabitants, which makes it the fourth most populous municipality in its state, and it is the only municipality of the Central-West region that borders two countries. Its territory of roughly 64,432 square kilometres is larger than several European countries and ranks eleventh among all Brazilian municipalities. The settlement grew out of Portuguese and Spanish rivalry over the frontier: a first village appeared in 1778 as Vila de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Albuquerque, and the place later prospered as the last easily navigable river port on the Paraguay River beside the Pantanal, handling trade goods and, around the turn of the twentieth century, exported Amazonian rubber.