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  1. State in NW Brazil; the centre of Amazonian
  2. tin and gold mining and of experiments in
  3. agricultural colonization; area 243,044 sq
  4. km/93,876 sq mi; population (1986) 776,000.
  5. Known as the Federal Territory of Guapore
  6. until 1956, it became a state in 1981.
  7.