The ceremonial Paralympic flag was handed to the governor of Tokyo, which will host the next Olympics and Paralympics in 2020, by International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven.
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Korea finished in 19th place in the medals table, winning seven gold, 11 silver and 16 bronze medals.
The Paralympics concluded on Sunday night, with an extraordinary Closing Ceremony at the Maracana.
The ceremony also paid tribute with a minute of silence to Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who died on Saturday from a cardiac arrest during a road race.
While they have attracted less attention than the stars of the 2016 Summer Oympics last month, such as gold-winning swimmer Sun Yang or the exuberant bronze medal swimmer Fu Yuanhui, they have done their more famous fellow athletes one better.
Temer was booed during the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games on September 7 in what was one of his first official outings since taking office.
Gold medalist Akeem Stewart of Trinidad and Tobago was the lone gold medalist for the English-speaking Caribbean at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hailing the success of the Games, Craven told the crowd: “You embraced the Games and took the athletes to your hearts and they relished your support”.
The generally positive ending was quite the turnaround from a few weeks ago when the Rio organizers’ woeful finances in the wake of the August Olympics and a stunning lack of interest in tickets raised fears of failure.
And tensions over a ban imposed by the International Paralympic Committee on the entire Russian team because of alleged state doping remain.
Some 4,350 athletes from 160 countries and regions competed at the Paralympics on the court, track and in the pool.
Craven warned earlier Sunday that “major change” will be needed from Russian Federation to be allowed back into Paralympic competition.
The total easily surpasses the tally from London 2012, when ParalympicsGB earned 120 medals.
Poles won nine golds, 18 silvers and 12 bronzes at the Paralympics, which ended on Sunday.
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Devendra, who won his previous gold in the 2004 Athens Games, bettered his own world record to finish on top in the men’s F46 event.
