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 - The amazonian river basin is where half of the twenty majors is concentrated rivers of the world. It has more than 20,000 km of navigable waterways.

- The amazonian river basin represents a fifth part of all the fresh water reserve of the planet.

- The Brazilian part of the amazonian river basin is equivalent to the surface of 15 countries of Europe.

- The Amazon river is most extensive of the planet and first in volume of water (100,000 m3s).

- The Amazon river has sections of a width of 10 km and one depth of 100 M.s

- The amazonian forest owns 30% of the biodiversity of the world (especially of plants and insects) and near a 50% of its species have been only identified by science.

- There are trees in the Amazonia that reach the 20 M.s of height.

- Piraruçu of the Amazonia, that reaches the 3 M.s, is considered the greater fish of the world.

- From 1990 10 new species of monkeys are shortage in the Brazilian Amazonia.

- The National Park of Jaú (Amazon), and the greater forest reserve of South America, with 2.27 million of you have.

- Manaus, capital of the Amazon enjoyed the great opulence and was the most important cultural center of the North of Brazil. The old gentlemen of the rubber dreamed in transforming it into a city of European style and they denominated “Paris of the Tropical�. The architecture of its mansions confirms the luxury and the ostentation in which their inhabitants lived.

- The greater marine-fluvial island of the world is the Island of Marajó, with 50,000 km2s of extension.

- The ecological station of Anavilhanas is the greater fluvial archipelago of the world (Amazon) formed by 400 islands, with hundreds of Lagos, rivers.

- Bethlehem do For (Been of For), the State Capital, is a peculiar city that has two third parts of its territory formed by a total of 55 islands.

- The city of Santarém (Been of For) has one of its main attractiveness in the encounter, just in front of the city, of waters of the rivers Tapajós and Amazon, two of the main rivers of the state, that in future they reason together in the direction of the sea, but without getting to mix itself.

- Pororoca, phenomenon characterized by the encounter of the Atlantic Ocean with the waters of the Araguari river, that are mixed, making noise and forming waves of five meters of height. The island of Marajó (Been of For) is the scene of most famous pororoca of the world.

- In the State of Tocantins great inhabited earth extensions exist almost exclusively by natives, has elaborated an unpublished project of indigenous education in the country. The program includes training of Indian professors in the maternal language and Portuguese. Although the main objective is to respect the customs and the traditions of the inhabitants of the six existing villages in the State. The Program of Indigenous Education has been recognized by UNESCO like model to follow by the countries with indigenous population.

- The Brazilian Closed one is considered the richest savannah of the world by virtue of the great diversity and endemismo of high plants. It is thought that it has 10,000 species of plants, being more of endemic 40%, among them many grass.

- The greatest track of dinosaurio found by m2 of the world is near Souza (Been of Paraiba).

- In the known place as Abyss (Been of Goiás) is a place from which a panoramic one is descried excellent and is the call: “discopuerto�, is said that there is serves like landing field as ufos.

- The National Park Roraima Mount (Been of Roramima), is an immense plate, surrounded by the savannahs that border the tropical forests of the rivers Amazon and Arenoso. The mount served like source as inspiration the English Arthur Conan Doyle to write the Lost World.

- Brasilia shares with cities like Saint Petersburg, Washington, DC, Canberra or Putrajaya, the particularitity of to be constructed of the anything, becoming directly a great city.

- The Museum of values of the Central bank of Brasilia exhibits a nugget of 62 kg, the greater gold nugget found in Brazil.

- The skull of Luzia was shortage in 1971 (young that lived 11,500 years ago) by the French archeologist Annette Amperaire and it was forgotten in a shelf of a museum when the Brazilian professor Walter Neves recognized his importance.

- The Plated one of Araripe (Ceará) is one of the richest deposits of the fossil world of pterosaurios. In addition, many vestiges of other dinosaurios have been found there.

- In Juazeiro (Been of Bay), there is a monument to considered Cícero father the third greater concrete statue of the world, with 27 ms of height, after the statue of the Freedom in New York and the one of the Redeeming Christ in Rio de Janeiro.

- João Pessoa, State Capital of Paraíba, is the second city with more trees of the world, with more than 700 you have of protected vegetation, behind Paris. It gained east title in 1992, after a study realized by the Organization of the United Nations (the UN) in urban centers of several countries.

- The city of Sousa (Been of Paraíba), lodges Vale two Dinossauros, considered by the experts like one of the most important paleontological deposits of the world, with Jurassic tracks of left species makes by the minuses 70 million years.

- In Ingá (Been of Paraiba), the inscriptions carved on rocks, known as Pedras or Itacoatiaras do Ingá, wake up the curiosity of scientists, students and tourists. Surrounded by mystery since the millenarian inscriptions form indecipherable symbols, of high archaeological value. Three currents try to define their origin: they could be written by native of the region; they could be the manifestation of an evolved culture of another continent or would be a message of extraterrestrial that visited our planet.

- Recife, State Capital of Pernambuco, was born in the sickle of the rivers Capibaribe and Beberibe, in 1548, like a town of fishermen, but immediately it grew and at the moment is known it like “Brazilian Venice� by its bridges, channels and rivers, only in center of the city exist 39 bridges that cross more than 50 channels.

- Takings Moor, famous writer, that I create the word utopia, more ahead east use term in one of its books, where I indicate that the ideal place to live this serious utopia Fernando de Noronha (Rio Grande North do).

- In the State of Rio Grande North do a privileged state, besides its natural beauties, owns the purest air of Latin America, according to the establishment done by the NASA and the National Institute of Space explorations (INPE) from an investigation concluded in 1992.

- In Goiania, State Capital of Goiás, is the two Forest Buritis, where there is a Monument to World-wide La Paz, it has been had earth mixed of more than 50 countries in a blister of seven ms of height with concrete and crystal, with capacity to 40 tons. Annually, more earth are deposited, in a realized ceremony the world-wide day of the environment.

- In Pirenolpolis (Been of Goiás), in the celebrations of the Divine Espirito Santo, a representation of the war between Moors and Christians is celebrated. They are the calls of the Cavalhadas (cavalcades), they are the homonymous celebrations realized in Spain and allude to the battles in which the Christians expelled the Moors.

- The Pantanal (States of I kill Grosso and M.G do Sul) is considered the greater “window� of fresh water evaporation of the world.

- In the city of Adamantine (Minas Gerais), a story history happened of you foretell, the one of Girl gives Whistles, slave and mulata that lived in a small palace with João Fernandes de Oliveira, rich and powerful diamond retailer, that fell in love with her, with who lived, it had children and to whom left in inheritance his fortune most of. Its history served as argument to take it to the cinema.

- Still today seeking of diamonds they move to the rivers of the zone of Adamantine (Minas Gerais), in search of this precious stone, especially in the Jequitinhonha river.

- The Valley of the Moon (Been of Goiás), is resembled a lunar landscape, and due to it, it took that name.

- In the mountain region of the State of Espirito Santo, great part of their inhabitants is of German origin and Italian mainly, they have brought his traditions and customs to the zone, remember to these countries many of their constructions and their popular celebrations with scent and Central European flavor.

- The highest tip of Brazil with 3040 ms of altitude is the Tip Fog in the Amazon.

- In the region of Itatiaia (Been of Rio de Janeiro), the first national park in Brazil was created, in 1937, where the highest point of the state is placed, the Tip gives Agulhas Black, with 2,787 meters of altitude.

- In Rio de Janeiro one is the greater urban forest of the world, the one of Tijuca, totally reforested in second half of century XIX.

- The city of Sao Paulo has received immigrants worldwide to solve the manpower problem and today it is possible to be considered that it is the third greater Italian city of the world, the greater Japanese city outside Japan, the third greater Lebanese city outside Lebanon, the greater Portuguese city outside Portugal and the greater Spanish city outside Spain.

- Curitiba, State Capital of Parana, is an example at world-wide level of preservation of the architectonic patrimony and preservation of the nature in urban surroundings with pedestrian streets, streets with open stores the 24 hours of the day, selective collection of urban residues, all this has come developing in Curitiba having like departure point the well-being from the population. The city maintains, in addition, one of the best systems of collective transport of the country, with exported experiences, like the one of the Integrated System, mattered to New York. Curitiba has been the first Brazilian city to implant the selective collection of urban residues and distributes know how on processes of recycling to different points of the country and the world. In addition, m2 of green zone by inhabitant maintains an extension of 52, much more who the 16 m2 recommended by the UN.

- In Curitiba a called pedestrian street exists: Damn mouth, that has like symbol a great mouth, symbolizing the spirit of the place. It is the scene so that anyone can indicate its political ideas, to recite a poetry, point of contact of social gatherings…

- The State of Santa Catarina (South of Brazil), is known like a nailed piece of Europe in the south of Brazil, mainly of Germans, Poles, Italian…

- In the population of Blumenau (Santa Catarina) the Otkoberfest is celebrated annually, festival of the barrel beer that is a reedición of the celebration that is celebrated in Munich (Germany).

- In other populations also of the same State of Santa Catarina, like in Pomerode and Joinville, where 90% of the population of 20,000 inhabitants speak in German. There the children only learn the Portuguese in the schools, the constructions customs, celebrations and traditions have their Central European origin, mainly of Germany.

- Admirable crystal crafts of Murano (Venice) in the city of Poços Will find de Calda (Been of Minas Gerais) since he is one of the main centers of crystal crafts, since time back Italian artists indeed of the island of Murano brought their techniques and experiences to this city. They call “murano Brazilian�.

- Brazil owns 17% of the reserves of the underground potable water worldwide.

- The thermal water source greater of the planet is in the Mabu Hotel Spas & Resort (Foz de Iguaçu - Been of Parana), since it is located on the water-bearing mantle of Guaraní, the greater water underground reserve of the world, that appears crystalline and current in the sources of resort and guarantees baths in the morning, in the evening and at night and, when having its waters completely renewed every 4 hours, can be said that the water in which you bathe you are unique.

- In Pirangi do Sun in the State of Rio Grande North do is the tree of greater cashew of the world, and continues growing, covers an almost 8,000 area of m2, more than 500 ms of circumference and 95 years of existence, already several next houses are thought demolishing to allow that the tree I continued growing. The extraordinary phenomenon must to a genetic anomaly in the seed. It produces every year 3 tons of cashews.

- To offer a cafezhino is a hospitality symbol and friendship in Brazil, is something more than a custom, is a form to give the welcome anywhere to the visitor of Brazil. The Brazilians say that they drink a strong coffee like the devil, warms up like hell and chaptalisation like the love. “Cafezinho� is of the size of expresso, drinks without milk. Brazil is the first producer of the world of coffee in front of Colombia.

- A tradition in Brazil Exists to take to the tape-bracelet of the Gentleman do Bonfim and so that 3 desires are fulfilled this will have to remain in the wrist until the tape undoes by its use. Many famous ones and known have followed this tradition.  

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