Brazilian History

The Port of Rio de Janeiro [Porto do Rio de Janeiro] includes 22,113 feet [6,740 meters] of continuous wharf and has a 2,897 foot [883 meter] pier. It's located on a cove on the western shore of Guanabara Bay [Baía de Guanabara]. It stretches from the Wharf of the Cashew [Cais do Caju] in the north to the Mauá Pier [Cais Mauá] in the east. It's Brazil's third busiest port for cargo volume.

A democracy.

# Sao Paulo # Rio de Janeiro # Salvador

# Fortaleza # Belo Horizonte # Brasilia # Curitiba # Manaus # Recife # Porto Alegre

They are 26 States: Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí. Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, and Tocantins. And the Distrito Federal.

An unofficial reading of 0 degrees Fahrenheit [-17.8 degrees Celsius] is Brazil's lowest known temperature. It was recorded on June 29, 1996 at Morro da Igreja ['Hill of the Church']. Morro da Igreja is considered Brazil's coldest place. It's a 5,977 foot [1,822 meter] peak in the southern state of Santa Catarina.

Because "Portuguese discoveries" came to Brazil, stole our natural resources, our gold, gave it to England, killed the natives, destroyed the forests, and did nothing good. England, Netherlands and France made WAY more things to Brazil than Portugal.

Brazil is a big country. It's the largest country on the South American continent. It's the third largest country of all North and South America. It's the fifth largest country in the world.

Brazil dos not have a thanksgiving holiday, so it is not largely celebrated.

1.) In the 1950s the government built a steel mill, an oil refinery and many hydroelectric dams. The government also set up a bank that had the explicit purpose of lending money to new businesses. 2.) In an attempt to combat poverty, the Brazilian government instituted a variety of development programs. Most of these programs have focused on developing the industrial sector and also on encouraging people to migrate to Brazil's sparsely populated interior regions. 3.) Another great success was the creation and widespread use of the alcohol-based fuel - gasohol, which is a mix of gasoline and ethanol. By using ethanol (which comes from sugarcane), Brazil has been able to avoid spending large amounts of money on expensive foreign oil. These efforts have resulted in manufacturing now accounting for one third of Brazil's gross national product and status as one of the world's leading industrial nations.

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Rio de Janerio

Sao Paulo

Brasilia

For fishing. It supplies food to the people of the cities.

In 1960, Brazil's capital was moved from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília. It took 41 months to build Brasília, from 1956 to 1960. Brasília officially was inaugurated as the capital on April 21, 1960.

Brazil is the largest country in Latin America
Brazil has won the World Cup 5 times
Brazil has the biggest river in size and amount of water (the Amazon River); Also the second biggest in amount of water is in Brazil too. (not in size, that would be the Nile River, in Egypt) --> wrong. Due to recent satelite studies, the Amazon river is also the biggest in size, even bigger than the Nile. (the research has been published by the Discovery Channel)
Brazil has one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, the Christ Redeemer statue, placed on the Corcovado hill, in Rio De Janeiro
Brazil has one of the biggest cities in the wold. São Paulo, has a huge urbanized area, and a huge population. It's a centre of investments, that influences not only the country itself, but all the countries in Latin America
Brazil has the biggest rain forest of the world, the Amazon forest
Due to his strong economy, Brazil was the last country to be affected by the recent economic crisis. And was, also the first one to overcome it and start growing economically again, while other countries remain affected by the global crisis.
Brazil is part and is ahead of the BRIC's. The group of the main developping countries, which also includes Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Christ the Redeemer was inaugurated on October 12, 1931, but his story started much earlier. In the mid 19th century the Catholic Church has wanted to do a large religious monument in Rio The centenary celebrations of Independence gave the final impetus. But in 1922, was only possible to lay the foundation stone of the statue. Even with access to a highway and an electrified railway, building a giant sculpture of a mountain peak located 710 meters above sea level was extremely difficult, taking five years to complete. Construction began in 1926, three years after being chosen a design engineer Heitor da Silva Costa. The artist Carlos Oswald made the final design of the statue, which was made by the French sculptor Paul Landowski of Polish origin.

Landowski's heirs claimed copyright because the sculpture, but had never recognized it. The rights to the image of Christ belong to the Archbishop of Rio Mitra The sculpture is listed by the historic site since 1937. Made of soapstone and art deco style, the Christ is 38 meters tall, eight in the pedestal and 3.75 m in the head. The distance between the tips of both hands is 30 meters. Each hand measures 3.2 meters and weighs eight tons. The total weight of the monument is 1,145 tons. In the last reform in 2003, was put escalators to reach the statue

Government type: federal republic

Brazil's land area totals over 3.3 million square miles[8.5 million square kilometers]. It's the fifth largest country in the world. It's the largest country in South America. It takes up nearly 50 percent of the South American continent.

Brazil is the largest country on the continent of South America.