CANTAGALLO  , an inland

town of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about loo m. by rail N.E. of the port of Rio de Janeiro, with which it is connected by the Cantagallo railway . Pop . (189o) of the municipality, 26,067, of whom less than one-fourth live in the town . Cantagallo is situated in the fertile Parahyba valley and is the commercial centre of a rich coffee-producing district . There are exhausted gold placer mines in its vicinity, but they were not rich enough to cause any considerable development in mining . Coffee production is the principal industry, but sugar-cane is grown to a limited extent, and some attention is given to the raising of cattle and swine . The district is an excellent fruit region .