São Domingos do Capim is a Brazilian

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the state of

Pará Pará is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state) ...

. The estimated population is 32,139 (2020). It has an area of 1677 km². The city is well known for hosting a world surfing championship in the bore tides of the

Guamá River The Guamá River is located in northeast Pará state in north-central Brazil. Its mouth forms the southern border of the state capital, Belém. Its watershed drains an area of . The navigability is feasible in the last of the river, from the mun ...

, a phenomenon which is locally referred to as the ''

pororoca The Pororoca (, ) is a tidal bore, with waves up to high that travel as much as inland upstream on the Amazon River and adjacent rivers. Its name might come from the indigenous Tupi language, where it could translate into "great roar". It could b ...

''. The championships take place between March and April.

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Municipalities in Pará River surfing Surfing locations in Brazil {{Pará-geo-stub