Parahyba.

Parahyba. capital of the Brazilian state of Parahyba, on the river of the same name, 10 miles from the sea. Its chief buildings are the cathedral and the government palace (formerly the Jesuit college). A large sugar-mill was erected in 1889. At the mouth of the river is a bar; but a railway (12 miles) was built in 1889 to the port of Cabedello, there terminating in a pier in deep water. The annual exports—sugar, cotton, and cotton-seed, chiefly to Great Britain—amount to about £200,000. Pop. 14,000.—The state, the easternmost in the republic, has an area of 28,854 sq. m. and a pop. (1890) of 457,232.—There is a more important Parahyba River farther south, which enters the Atlantic, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, after a course of nearly 500 miles. It is navigable for 50 miles from its mouth.