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BRAZIL

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Important Cities

  1. Brasilia(Capital)
  2. Vitoria
  3. Salvador
  4. Maceio
  5. Rio Branco
  6. Manaus
  7. Boa Vista
  8. Belem
  9. Porto Alegre
  10. Sao Paulo
  11. Belo Horizonte
  12. Recife

Main Attractions

  1. Surfing Copacabana Beach
  2. National Historic Museum
  3. Bom Jesus do Congonhas
  4. Diamantina National Park
  5. Carnival in Rio
  6. Amazonia National Park
  7. Museum of Modern Art
  8. Corc ovado
  9. Copacabana Beach
  10. Cristo Redentor
  11. Fernando de Noronha
  12. Iguacu Falls (with Argentina)
  13. Ipanema Beach
  14. Salvador de Bahia Old Town
  15. Sugar Loaf Mountain

Main Industries

  1. Cement
  2. Iron Ore
  3. Steel
  4. Shoes
  5. Textiles
  6. Chemicals
  7. Tin
Hunted Facts on brazil
  • Brazil is an art film, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
  • Brazil is a very cerebral film, so if you are thinking, "What does cerebral mean?" you can probably skip it.
  • Brazil is a film for those who want texture, emotional involvement and some sort of deeper meaning.
  • Brazil shares a border with almost every other country in South America--only Chile and Ecuador are untouched--and covers almost half the continent.
  • Despite its vast expanse of territory, Brazil's population is concentrated in the major cities of its coast.
  • Almost half of Brazil's territory is covered by the basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries, a region that is one of the world's largest rainforest ecologies.
  • Brazil has extensive tracts of fertile land, especially along the Amazon and in the south-eastern portion; but the greater part of the plateaux is fit only for grazing.
  • Brazil was discovered on the 26th of January, 1500, by Vicente Yanez Pinzon, a Spaniard who had been a companion of Columbus.
  • From 1580 to 1640, Brazil, as a dependency of Portugal, was in the hands of Spain, and during the latter part of this period Holland, being at war with Spain, seized a good portion of the country.
  • Brazil has the world's second largest Christian population (151 million, behind that of the United States), and also is the world's largest Roman Catholic-majority nation in terms of both number of adherents and land mass — a strong cultural legacy left behind by the Roman Catholic Portuguese colonists.





Nearby Countries

Argentina
Venezuela
Brazil
Colombia
Suriname


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