GUAJARAMIN. – Prelature nullius and city in the State of Mato Grosso in Brazil.
It has an area of 60,000 sq. km., with 15,000 inhabitants, of whom 10,000 are Catholics; it has 1 parish with 2 diocesan priests and 2 religious priests, 1 male and 1 female religious community.
The prelature was created by Pope Pius XI by the apostolic constitution Animarum cura of 1 March 1959, through dismemberment from the diocese of S. Luigi de Cáceres and the prelature of Porto Velho, raising the church of N. S. del Perpetuo Soccorso to the status of prelatic church; the prelature is suffragan to Cujabá.
BIBL.: AAS, 22 (1930), pp. 444-46. Enrico Josi