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 are sugar, cotton, and cottonseed, chiefly to Great Britain.
Pop. (1917) 32,000. The state, the east ernmost in the republic, has an area of 28,854 square miles, pop. (1917) 682,- 350. A more important Parahyba river farther south, 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.