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Brazil
South America’s largest country and the fifth largest country in the world, Brazil has a total land area of 3,287,597 sq mi and has a total population of approximately 191,241,714. Brazil was a former Portuguese colony and gained in independence in 1822.
3,034 Questions
What kind of indigenous tribes were in brasilia?
Tapuias and Avás-Canoeiros were the 2 ethnicity from the State of Goias, where Brasilia is located.
What country is larger Brazil or Ecuador?
Brazil. By a substantial amount in both area and population.
How do you say Best Regards in Brazil?
'Como está você?' or 'Como vai?'. "Como vai" is way more common, though.
Why is the cerrado the vast grasslandsof Brazil-eing increasingly settled?
Because With tropical Savannah soil deficient in nutrients and rich in iron and aluminum plants look dry houses, including shrubs and sparse grasses, and the Cerrado, a more dense type of vegetation, forest formation.
Brazil is a newly industrialised country because it is still a developing country and it was recently an LEDC
Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, which is in South America, unlike Italy which is in Europe.
When you go to Brazil can you talk in English?
Most Brazilians don't speak English, unfortunately, although most are familiar with simple expressions. If your are dealing with people from the tourism area, you probably won't find any difficulties to talk in English.
What does samba represent in Brazil's culture?
Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. It is widely viewed as Brazil's national musical style. (This is not to be confused with the Zamba. The Zamba is a style of Argentine music, and an associated dance, very different from its homophone, the Samba)
History
Samba's roots come from Africa, mainly Angola, where the dance semba was a predecessor of samba, and as importantly from Portugal and Europe, which made it possible for the relatively intricate harmonies found in samba to be developed out of European tradition.
Samba developed as a distinctive kind of music at the beginning of the 20th century in Rio de Janeiro (then the capital of Brazil) under the strong influence of immigrant black people from the Brazilian state of Bahia. The title "samba school" ("escola de samba") originates from samba's formative years. The term was adopted by larger groups of samba performers in an attempt to lend acceptance of samba and its performance; local campuses were often the practice/performance grounds for these musicians and "escola" gave early performers a sense of legitimacy and organization to offset samba's somewhat controversial social atmosphere. Despite some similarities, samba is not an offshoot of jazz and has distinctively different origins and line of development - one of the factors which adds to this is that Brazilian slave owners allowed their slaves to continue their heritage of playing drums (unlike U.S. slave owners who feared use of the drum for communications).
"Pelo Telefone" (1917), by Donga and Mauro Almeida, is generally considered the first samba recording. Its great success carried the new genre outside the black favelas. Who created the music is uncertain, but it was most probably the work of the group around Tia Ciata, among them Pixinguinha and João da Bahiana.
In the 1930s, a group of musicians led by Ismael Silva founded the first Samba School, Deixa Falar, in the neighborhood of Estácio de Sá. They transformed the musical genre to make it fit better the carnival parade. In this decade, the radio spread the genre's popularity all around the country, and with the support of the nationalist dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, samba became Brazil's "official music".
In the following years samba music developed in several directions, from the gentle samba-canção to the drum orchestras which accompany the carnival parade. One of these new styles was the bossa nova, made primarily by middle class white people. Bossa nova gained worldwide popularity through the works of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim, among others, and arrived in North America via Gilberto's albums with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, and Jobim's soundtrack to the 1959 film Black Orpheus.
In the 1960s, Brazil became politically divided with the arrival of a military dictatorship, and the leftist musicians of bossa nova started to gather attention to the music made in the favelas. Many popular artists were discovered at this time. Names like Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho & Guilherme de Brito, Velha Guarda da Portela, Zé Keti, and Clementina de Jesus recorded their first albums.
In the 1970s, samba returned strongly to the air waves with composers and singers like Paulinho da Viola, Martinho da Vila, Clara Nunes, and Beth Carvalho dominating the hit parade. Great samba lyricists like Paulo César Pinheiro (especially in the praised partnership with João Nogueira) and Aldir Blanc started to appear around that time.
In the early 1980s, after having been eclipsed by the popularity of disco and Brazilian rock, Samba reappeared in the media with a musical movement created in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. It was the pagode, a renewed samba, with new instruments - like the banjo and the tan-tan - and a new language that reflected the way that many people actually spoke with the inclusion of heavy gÃria (slang). The most popular artists were Zeca Pagodinho, Almir Guineto, Grupo Fundo de Quintal, Jorge Aragão, and Jovelina Pérola Negra.
Samba is extremely popular in Japan, especially in its more traditional forms; so much that some sambistas like Nelson Sargento, Monarco, and Wilson Moreira have recorded specifically for the Japanese market and frequently tour the country.
Today, samba is still one of the most popular musical genres in Brazil.
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Is there a formal region in Brazil?
No. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) divided the national territory of Brazil into five main regions. The five regions are North, Northeast, Central-West, Southeast, and South. These regions are geographical for demographic and statistical purposes. They aren't political or administrative.
What is the ISD code to India from Brazil?
The telephone country code for India is +91. You must also drop the trunk prefix 0 from the beginning of the Indian telephone number. For example, Mumbai's area code 022 becomes +91 22.
From Brazil, dial +91 (including the plus symbol) on a mobile phone. From a landline phone or a fax machine, you must dial 00XX 91, where XX is a two-digit carrier selection code (for example, 0025 91 to place the call with GVT).
(The plus sign means "insert your international access prefix here." From a GSM mobile phone, you can enter the number in full international format, starting with the plus sign. The most common prefix is 00, but North America (USA, Canada, etc.) uses 011, Japan uses 010, Australia uses 0011, and many other countries use different prefixes.)
Who made the statue rio de Genaro?
The Christ Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro) statue was designed by Heitor da Silva Costa and carved by French sculptor Paul Landowski. The Christ Redeemer statue took five years to construct and was inaugurated on October 12, 1931.
How large does the common marmoset grow?
Most adult common marmosets range from five and a half to eight inches in length.
What are the main mountains of Brazil the brassilian.?
They are some thing like The Brassilian ...... i dont no the other part soz .
What is the highest cost to stay at a hotel in Brazil?
Brazil is one of the popular country for travelling in the whole world. There are many luxurious hotel with the highest cost to stay at brazil like Ponta dos Ganchos Exclusive Resort, Fasano Hotel e Restaurante Rio, Convento do Carmo Hotel, Hotel das Cataratas, Casa Grande Hotel Resort And Spa and many more. Its provide such great facility and unique services to guest.
Where is the Pearl of the Atlantic?
Guaruja city in Brazil is also called "The Pearl of the Atlantic". This city are in the beaches of Sao Paulo state in Brazil, 85 Km from Sao Paulo capital. It has 500 thousand inhabitants but in the south hemisferic summer (Dez 21 to Mar 21) it receives 1,000,000 visitors.
Is Brazil and Russia a foreign country?
Brazil and Russia are two separate countries. Brazil is the largest country in South America (5th in the world), and Russia is the largest country in Asia and Europe (largest in the world).
Foreign means "not from the same place of origin", so it depends on perspective. Technically, all countries are foreign.
Yes it does.
Back when Brazil was a Portuguese colony, a big industry for the Portuguese was the extration of wood. Portugal won a lot of money with this extrative industry.
Not any kind of wood though.
In Brazil we have a typical wood that is red/yelow, looks like it's on fire. Just like burning coal.
There is a name in Portuguese for "burning coal" that is "brasa". So, burning coal is "brasa".
"Brasa" is a noun, the adjective for "like burning coal" is "brasil".
Therefore the wood that was abundant here was named "Pau-Brasil" or Brazilwood (as there is no word in english for "LikeBurningCoal-Wood", or something like that...lol...).
Brazilwood was very popular and used in europe, so the word was that a "Brazil land" was discovered.
