This place was established by the American industrialist Henry Ford in 1927, when he started his corporate city project. It was intended to be a huge rubber plantation in the Amazon rainforest, along the east banks of the Tapajos river. Ford developed the idea of a corporate city with every facility imaginable — swimming pools, a golf course, bungalows, and even a place for practicing national American dances. However, the locals weren’t happy with the whole idea and refused to accept a ban on alcohol. Brazilian workers and American industrialists seemed to be in a permanent state of conflict over the issue, and in 1930, the native workers revolted in one of the town’s cafeterias. They threw the cars into the river and chased away the managers into the jungle. After that, the city was abandoned for good.