>Santarm city, west-central Pará estado ("state"), northern Brazil, on the >right bank of the Tapajós River, near its confluence with the Amazon River. >Santarém was founded in 1661 as a Jesuit mission to a Tapajó Indian >settlement (aldeia) and grew around a fort built by Pedro Teixeira. It was >given town status in 1758, with the name of Tapajós, and was elevated to >city rank in 1848. A group of Confederate exiles settled in Santarém after >the Civil War in the United States (1861-65); some of their descendants >still live in the area, but most of the original settlers returned, >disillusioned, to the United States. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com