BRAZIL is KNOWING
TABLE OF CONTENTS #SB[JM's Map ... ......................................................................1 Climate and Weather.........................................................2 Brazil's States........................................................................4
National Days and Celebrations........................................9
BRAZIL MAP
Country Name: Federative Republic of Brazil Localition: South America Area : 8.511.965 km² Papulation : 153.322.000 Language : Portuguese Capital : Brasillia Currency : Cruzado
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CLIMATE and WEATHER T
he area is 8.511.96 km² , Federative Republic of Brazil
Annual average temperature is 25 ° C. Although due to the higher temperature Upgrade felt the impact of the Amazon in the central part is slightly lower than the northern part. The seasonal rainfall can be separated from each varieties in Brazil. These are: equatorial, tropical, semiother. In the southern part appears like a tougher humid, tropical climate is seen in terrestrial and elevations. Equatorial climate affects the northern part of the more climate continental climate. Air temperature never than Brazil. In the region there are periods where there is exceeds 18 ° C, and there was quite cold winter months. virtually rainless period of more intense rainfall. Quite a large area shows the diversity climate in Brazil. However a large part of the country is influenced by the tropical climate. According to the Köppen system, the influence of the 5 types of climate
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States of Brazil ACRE
Alagoas
Acre, state in the western part of Brazil. Located in the foothills of the Andes Mountains of Acre, in the west and southern Peru, Bolivia is limited to the east. Area 152 590 km². Population 385,000, is the center of Rio Branco. State located in the rain forest, important rubber, coffee, rice and sugarcane farming areas. 1837 released by Brazil to Bolivia Acree, Brazilian rubber growers settled in the 19th century and declared independence in 1899. In 1903 rejoined the Brazilian territory Acre, in 1962, was transformed into a state.
Alagoas Alagoas is one of the 26 states of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti. Its capital is the city of Maceió.
AMAPA Amapá is a state located in the northern region of Brazil. It is the second least populous state and the eighteenth largest by area. Located in the far northern part of the country, Amapá is bordered clockwise by French Guiana to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Pará to the south and west, and Suriname to the northwest. The capital and largest city is Macapá. In the colonial period the region was called Portuguese Guiana and was part of Portugal's State of Brazil. Later, the region was distinguished from the other Guianas. Amapá was once part of Pará, but became a separate territory in 1935, and a state in 1990.
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razil 26 states and a federal district.
States / Regions / Cities 26 states and a federal district;
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Acre,
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Alagoas,
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Amapa,
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Amazonas,
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Bahia,
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Ceara,
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Distrito Federal,
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Espirito Santo,
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Goias,
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Maranhao,
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Mato Grosso,
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Mato Grosso do Sul,
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Minas Gerais,
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Para,
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Paraiba,
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Parana,
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Pernambuco,
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Piaui,
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Rio de Janeiro,
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Rio Grande do Norte,
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Rio Grande do Sul,
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Rondonia,
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Roraima,
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Santa Catarina,
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Sao Paulo,
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Sergipe,
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Tocantins
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States of BRAZIL Amazonas
Amazonas ( is a state of Brazil, located in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian State by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world.
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Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas State, Venezuela, and the Loreto Region in Peru. Amazonas is named after the Amazon River, and was formerly part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, a region called Spanish Guyana. It was settled by the Portuguese in the early 18th century and incorporated into the Portuguese empire after the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. It became a state of the Brazilian Republic in 1889.
Federal District (Brazil) The Federal District (Portuguese: Distrito Federal; Portuguese pronunciation) is one of 27 federative units of Brazil. Located in the Central Plateau of the Brazilian Highlands, the Federal District is divided into 31 administrative regions, and contains the Brazilian capital city, Brasília, which is also the seat of government of the Federal District. The capital the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Brazil is the main attraction of this dry area, whose climate has only two seasons. During the dry season (winter), the humidity can reach critical levels, mainly in the peak hours of the hottest days. The artificial Paranoá Lake, with almost 40 km2 (15 sq mi) and 500 million cubic metres (410,000 acre·ft) of water, was built to minimize the severe dry, climatic conditions of winter in the Cerrado vegetation.
Bahia
Espirito Santo Espírito Santo is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the Southeast and is limited to the Atlantic Ocean to the east, north Bahia, Minas Gerais to the west and northwest and the state of Rio de Janeiro to the south, covering an area of 077,519 km ² 46. It has 3,512,672 inhabitants, its capital Victoria is a city of 330,526 ocunpando the 4th place among the most populous state, has 1,685,380 inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
Bahia
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the eastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, located at the junction of the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of All Saints, officially first seen by European sailors in 1501. The name "bahia" is an archaic spelling of the Portuguese word baía, meaning "bay"
Ceara Ceará is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the main tourist destinations in Brazil. The state capital is the city of Fortaleza, the country's fourth most populous city.Literally, the name Ceará means "sings the jandaia". According to José de Alencar, one of the most important writers of Brazil and an authority in Tupi Guaraní, Ceará means turquoise or green waters. There are also theories that the state name would derive from Siriará, a reference to the crabs from the seashore. The state is best known for its extensive coastline, with 600 kilometers (370 mi) of sand. There are also mountains and valleys producing tropical fruits. To the south, on the border of Paraíba, Pernambuco and Piauí, is the National Forest of Araripe.
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Maranhão
States of BRAZIL
Maranhão
Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The name Goiás (formerly, Goyaz) comes from the name of an indigenous community. The original word seems to have been guaiá, a compound of gua e iá, meaning "the same person" or "people of the same origin." Neighboring states are (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, the Federal District, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso.
Maranhão is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the west of the Northeast Region of Brazil and has as limits to the north Atlantic Ocean, east to the Brazilian state of Piaui, the southern and southeastern Brazilian state of Tocantins the Brazilian state of Para and west. It occupies an area of 331 935.507 km ², and has 6,569,683 inhabitants. Its capital is São Luís which has 1,027,429 inhabitants and 1,327,881 in the metropolitan area.
The most central of the Brazilian states and the most populous of the region, Goiás is characterized by a landscape of chapadões (plateaus). In the height of the drought season, from June to September, the lack of rain makes the level of the Araguaia River go down and exposes almost 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of beaches, making it the main attraction of the State. At the Emas National Park in the municipality of Mineiros, it is possible to observe the typical fauna and flora from the region. At the Chapada dos Veadeiros the attractions are the canyons, valleys, rapids and waterfalls. Other attractions are the historical city of Goiás (or Old Goiás), 132 km (82 mi) from Goiânia, established in the beginning of 18th Century, and Caldas Novas, with its hot water wells attracting more than one million tourists per year.
Mato Grosso
Goias
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso do Sul
The Mato Grosso do Sul is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located south of the Midwest. Its limits the northeast states of Goiás, Minas Gerais east, Mato Grosso (north), Paraná (south) and São Paulo (Southeast), and Bolivia (west) and Paraguay (west and south). 357 has an area of 124.962 km ², higher than Germany. Its population according to the census in 2010 was 2,449,341 inhabitants. The state capital Campo Grande is a city of 796,252 inhabitants.
Mato Grosso is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the Midwest. Is the northern portion of its territory occupied by the Amazon, and the southern state belonging to the SouthCentral Brazil. Its limits: Amazonas, Pará (N), Tocantins, Goiás (L), Mato Grosso do Sul (S), Rondônia and Bolivia (O). It occupies an area of 903,357 km ², being three times larger than Italy, has 3,033,991 inhabitants. Its capital is Cuiabá, a city of 556,298 inhabitants and 859,130 inhabitants, is one of the venues of the FIFA World Cup 2014.
Minas Gerais Minas Gerais is one of 27 units of Brazil, being the fourth largest in area - which is 586,528 km ², higher than in France - and the third in population. Located in southeastern Brazil and limited to the south and southwest with St. Paul, west to the Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás in the northwest, including a small border with the Federal District, the east by the Holy Spirit, the southeast by the River January and the north and northeast with Bahia. The state is the second most populous in Brazil, with almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte, which meets in its metropolitan area about 5.5 million inhabitants, and thus, the third largest urban agglomeration in Brazil. Belo Horizonte is one of the headquarters of WC of 2014 and the Summer Olympics of 2016.
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States of BRAZIL Para Pará is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is the second largest state in the country with an extension of 1,247,689.515 km ², slightly larger than Angola, divided into 144 municipalities (with the creation of Mojuí dos Campos), Lesta is situated in the northern region and has borders with Suriname and Amapá in the north the northeast Atlantic Ocean, east Maranhão, Tocantins southeast, south Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima west and northwest Guyana. It is the richest and most populous state in the northern region, with a population of 7,321,493 inhabitants. Its capital is the city of Bethlehem, and gathers in its metropolitan area with 2.1 million inhabitants, is the second largest metropolitan population in the North, will host the Copa America 2015.
Parana
Paraiba Paraíba is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located east of the Northeast and is limited to the state of Rio Grande do Norte to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Pernambuco and Ceara south west. It occupies an area of 56,439 km ² (slightly smaller than Croatia) and has 3,766,834 inhabitants. The state capital is the city of João Pessoa, a city of 733,154 inhabitants and 1,171,641 in metro.
Parana Paraná is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the southern region of the country and is limited to Sao Paulo (north and east), the Atlantic Ocean (east), Santa Catarina (South), Argentina (SW) , Paraguay (west) and Mato Grosso do Sul (northwest). occupies an area of 199,880 km ², slightly larger than Senegal, has 10,439,601 inhabitants. Its capital is Curitiba a great city, which has 1,764,540 inhabitants and 3,172,357 in its metropolitan area is known for being the coldest capital of Brazil with rare frost and snow in winter, is one of the hosts of World Cup 2014.
Piaui Piauí is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located northwest of the Northeast and is limited to the Atlantic Ocean (N), Ceará and Pernambuco (L), Bahia (S and SE), Tocantins (SO) and Maranhão (O and NO). It occupies an area of 251,529 km ² (slightly larger than the UK) and has 3,032,421 inhabitants. Its capital is the city of Teresina a city with 802,537 inhabitants and 1,135,920 inhabitants in its metropolitan area.
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Pernambuco Pernambuco is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in east-central Northeast and is limited to the states of Paraíba (N), Ceará (NO), Alagoas (SE), Bahia (S) and Piauí (O), and is bounded by Atlantic Ocean (L). It occupies an area of 98,311 km ² (slightly smaller than South Korea), the estdo has 8,796,032 inhabitants. Also part of its territory the islands of Fernando de Noronha and São Pedro e São Paulo. Its capital is the city of Recife, a coastal city with beautiful beaches, which has 1,546,516 inhabitants and 3.7 million in the metropolitan area.
States of BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro The Rio de Janeiro is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the eastern portion of the Southeast, having as limits the states of Minas Gerais (north and northwest), the Holy Spirit (northeast) and São Paulo (southeast), as well as the Atlantic Ocean (east and south). It occupies an area of 696.054 km ² 43, being slightly larger than Denmark. Its capital is the Rio de Janeiro, one of the most beautiful and known cities of Brazil, has 6,355,949 inhabitants and 13,812,482 inhabitants, was the headquarters of the Pan American Games in 2007 and is one of the headquarters of the World Cup in 2014 and Olympic Games 2016.
Rondonia
Rondonia is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the North and is limited to the states of Mato Grosso (east), Amazonas (north), Acre (west) and the Republic of Bolivia (west and south). The state has 52 municipalities and covers an area of 237,576.167 kilometers square, being about five times that of Croatia, and more than twice as large as Bulgaria, its population is 1,576,423 inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Porto Velho, a city of 435,732 inhabitants.
Rio Grande do Norte The Rio Grande do Norte is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the Northeast and has the limits of the Atlantic Ocean to the north east, Paraiba and Ceara south west. It is divided into 167 municipalities and their total area is 52 796.791 km ², equivalent to 3.42% area and 0.62% of the Northeast area of Brazil, being slightly larger than Costa Rica. The state population census in 2010 was 3,168,027 inhabitants. Its capital is a city of Natal 810 780 inhabitants and 1.4 million in the metropolitan area, is one of the headquarters of the World Cup 2014.
Rio Grande do Sul The Rio Grande do Sul state e'um located in southern Brazil, has 281 748.538 km ² and 10,914,128 inhabitants and has a great influence of European culture. Its capital is Porto Alegre, has 1,413,094 inhabitants and 4 million in the metropolitan area, is a global city, is one of the venues of the FIFA World Cup 2014
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States of BRAZIL Roraima
Roraima is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is situated in the north of the country, being the most northern state of the federation. Its limits to the north and northwest Venezuela, Guyana to the east, southeast Pará and Amazonas to the south and west. It occupies an approximate area of 224,300 km ², slightly less than Romania, being the fourteenth largest Brazilian state, has 460,157 inhabitants and is the least populated state in the country. Boa Vista is the only Brazilian capital entirely in the northern hemisphere, has 266,901 inhabitants.
Sao Paulo
Santa Catarina Santa Catarina is one of 27 states. It is the twenty Brazilian state with the greatest territorial extent and the eleventh most populous, with 6,248,436 inhabitants, and is the ninth most populous with 293 municipalities. Catholicism is the religion predominante.O official language, as well as other federal units, is Portuguese, but in some cities there is the occurrence of such languages as German and Italian.
The territorial dimensions cover an area of 95,346.181 km ², higher than Portugal, limited to the states of Paraná (north) and Rio Grande do Sul (South), the Atlantic Ocean (east) and Argentina (west). The ocean shore is about 450 km, or roughly half of the continental coast of Portugal (943 km). Its capital and seat of government is the city of Florianopolis, located on the island of Santa Catarina. Entirely south of the Tropic of Capricorn, located in the southern temperate zone of the planet, the state has a subtropical climate.
Sao Paulo is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the Southeast and is limits the states of inas ̀ Gerais to the north and northeast, the southern Parana, Rio de aneiro ̀ and ato ̀ Grosso east South west, beyond the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is divided into 645 municipalities and their total area is 248 209.426 km ², euivalent ̀ to 2.91 ̀ of the area of Brazil has 41,252,160 inhabitants and a GP ̀ of 800 billion dollars, being the richest and most populous Brazilian state . Its capital is the city of So ̀ Paulo, the most populous city in the Americas, with 11,316,149 inhabitants and 22 million in the metropolitan area.
Sergipe Sergipe is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the Northeast and has the limits of the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the states of Bahia, to the west and south, and Alagoas in the north, which is separated by the Rio San Francisco. It is the smallest states in Brazil, occupying a total area of 21,910 km ², slightly larger than Israel. In 2010, its population was estimated at 2,068,031 inhabitants. Its capital is Aracaju, which has 579,563 inhabitants and 835,654 in the metropolitan area.
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Tocantins The Tocantins is one of 27 units of Brazil, being its youngest state. It is located southeast of the Northern Region and is limited to the northeastern Maranhao, Piaui east, southeast Bahia, south Goiás, Mato Grosso and Pará southwest to the northwest. It occupies an area of 277,620 km ², slightly larger than Ecuador, Burkina Faso and New Zealand. Its capital is the planned city of Palmas.
NATIONAL DAYS AND DAYS CELEBRATIONS January 1
new Year Indicates the beginning of the new year.
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New Year
February
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Carnival
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April
Easter
Tiradentes Day (National Hero) April 21 This national holiday is celebrated annually on 21st April. Tiradentes Day in Brazil commemorates the execution of Brazilian national hero Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier (16 August, 1746 - 21 April 1792).
May
June
Religious Holidays (Corpus Christi) 14
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July
August
September
The Independence Day of Brazil commonly called Sete de Setembro (September 7), is a national holiday observed in Brazil on September 7 of every year. The date celebrates Brazil's Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves on September 7, 1822.
October
Religious Holidays (Lady Apereci) October 12 November
November 24 to 25 November Christmas
December
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General Information / Guide Location / Location East of the South American continent, located in the Atlantic Ocean coast of Brazil; northern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, with Colombia to the northwest, west and Peru, with the southwest of Bolivia, Paraguay in the south, is bordered by Argentina and Uruguay. Atlantic Ocean extends along the eastern part of the country. Important Cities •
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Economy After the second half of the 19th century was the main source of income of the coffee production in the country's economy. One of the most affected countries after the Great Depression, the Great Depression, which has become a very important industry in Brazil. Today, 20 percent of the national production industry, agriculture, and the remaining 20 percent is covered by 60 percent of the service sector. The country's main export product, iron, soybeans, footwear, coffee. The largest export partners are the United States and Argentina by 9 percent to 20 percent. The most important import products, the country's machinery and tools - supplies, chemicals, petroleum, electricity. The most important import partners are the United States with 17.5 percent and 8.5 percent in Argentina. Climate / Weather Quite a large area shows the diversity climate in Brazil. However a large part of the country is influenced by the tropical climate. According to the Köppen system, the influence of the 5 types of climate varieties in Brazil. These are: equatorial, tropical, semi-humid, tropical climate is seen in terrestrial and elevations. Equatorial climate affects the northern part of the more than Brazil. In the region there are periods where there is virtually rainless period of more intense rainfall. Annual average temperature is 25 ° C. Although due to the higher temperature Upgrade felt the impact of the Amazon in the central part is slightly lower than the northern part. The seasonal rainfall can be separated from each other. In the southern part appears like a tougher climate continental climate. Air temperature never exceeds 18 ° C, and there was quite cold winter months. Management Format / State Structure the Federal Republic constitution October 5, 1988
Spoken Languages The official language is Portuguese. The official language of Brazil is Portuguese is the only country in Latin America. It is also possible to come across different words in Portuguese-speaking Brazil. Particularly affected greatly by the Creole language of Brazil is Portuguese as accents vary widely. Brazilian Portuguese is spoken by most countries in the world. Religion Brazil has the largest Catholic population in the world. 15:41 percent Catholic and Protestant 73.57 percent seen. Overall 7.4 percent of those who believe the Brazilian people to Christianity is not a religion at all due to sect. In recent years, increasing the impact of Protestantism. When to Go? Because Brazil is in the southern hemisphere seasons are living in an inverted order by us. Reaching 40 째 C in December, temperatures can be seen. Experienced this summer from December to March is the best time to visit the country. Country Kitchen / Dining / What to Eat What to drink? Country kitchen is very spacious and the food standards are quite high. Brazilian cuisine that takes a lot of migration has long been a mixture of many countries, such as the kitchen. Sauce, various
spices, coconut and palm oil use is widespread. Black beans called the Feijoa, beef, green vegetables and has a kind of stew made with rice. Plenty of material-and very tasty meal. Place the meat in the country is very important and Churrascaria called the method of cooking meat over an open fire, which started in Sao Paulo, Brazil is also quite common. Fried in a special mortar called a Coxinha chicken is quite tasty. Another important source of food in the country, are the seafood. A lot of fish consumed. But it is the most consumed seafood shrimp and shrimp are done so many kinds of food. The most famous of the so-called Moguep shrimp, onions and onions cooked sea bass from the Moguer of the carur are dishes made with okra and shrimp. The world's largest coffee producer is also possible to find one of the many coffee varieties that you can try in Brazil. Practical Information Tourists will go to the Amazon jungle is very important in terms of health to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Although no obligation to protect them from disease will be to your advantage to make the vaccine. This vaccine at least 10 days before the date of entry into Brazil Istanbul and Izmir International airports or the Border and Coast in Karakoy Port in Istanbul can make the health unit in the Health Directorate. This vaccine is valid for 10 years. Although the country is able to transport the poor condition of roads everywhere can take a long road trip. Choose the airline if you can. Time trains and ships in Brazil is used only for freight transport. However, tours are organized by boat in the Amazon. Brazil is one of the safest countries in South America. Although violent crime is less possible to find several burglaries. Especially if you go to the ghetto, you need to be very careful. Considerations on / Important Information Brazil official name of the Federal Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. Both geographically and is the fifth largest country in the world in terms of population. The official language is Portuguese, the only country in the Americas and also in countries where Portuguese is the most spoken in the world. The Brazilian economy is the world's seventh largest economy. It also has the distinction of being one of the world's fastest growing economy. Brazilian rain forest in the green flag, the country's natural resources, including gold in yellow rectangular and round the middle navy blue represents the sky and the stars. The band surrounding the round ordem e Progresso (order and progress) is writing.