Abaetetuba
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The city of Abaetetuba is located in Pará
Pará
Pará is a state in the north of Brazil. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it also borders Guyana and Suriname, and to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Belém.Pará is the most populous state...

 State, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The population of the municipality is 141,054, of which 78,000 live in the city proper (IBGE
IBGE
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE , is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil...

 figure 2010). The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Abaetetuba
Roman Catholic Diocese of Abaetetuba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Abaetetuba is a diocese located in the city of Abaetetuba in the Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.-History:...

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Etymology

"Abaetetuba" comes from the Tupi language and means "group of true men", from the words abá ("man"), eté ("true") and tyba ("group").
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