Porecatu is a city in Paraná State

Paraná (state)

Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...

, Brazil

Brazil

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, located at around , at the margins of the Paranapanema River

Paranapanema River

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. Its economy

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 is mainly based on agriculture

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 with the sugarcane

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 being the most important product.

The city is served by Porecatu Airport

Porecatu Airport

-Accidents and incidents:*18 August 2000: VASP, a Boeing 737-2A1 registration PP-SMG en route from Foz do Iguaçu to Curitiba-Afonso Pena was hijacked by 5 persons with the purpose of robbing BRL 5 million that the aircraft was transporting. The pilot was forced to land at Porecatu where the...

.

History

Porecatu was the main place of a violent conflict between government

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 forces and landless workers

Landless Workers' Movement

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 during the decade of 1940

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, before the official creation of the city

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. This conflict was called Porecatu War (Portuguese: "Guerra de Porecatu").